About the Authors

Xin Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Fan, Meng Xiao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Meng Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Fan, Meng Xiao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Fanrong Kong

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

Timothy Kudinha

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

He Wang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Ying-Chun Xu

xycpumch@139.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XF MX FK YCX. Performed the experiments: XF MX. Analyzed the data: XF MX FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW. Wrote the paper: TK.