About the Authors

Yunfang Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yunfang Zhou, Dangui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical College, Shanghai, P.R. China

Dangui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yunfang Zhou, Dangui Zhang

Affiliation Research Center of Translational Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Youting Chen

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical College, Shanghai, P.R. China

Sha Zhou

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical College, Shanghai, P.R. China

Shuhua Pan

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical College, Shanghai, P.R. China

Yuanchun Huang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, P.R. China

William Ba-Thein

wbathein@stu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, P.R. China, Shantou-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WBT YZ. Performed the experiments: YZ YC SZ SP. Analyzed the data: DZ WBT. Wrote the paper: DZ WBT. Designed the questionnaire: WBT YH. Reviewed and validated the questionnaire: WBT YH YZ. Approved the final manuscript: YH YZ YC SZ SP DZ WBT.