About the Authors

Xingsheng Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingsheng Hou, Mary McMillan

Affiliations School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Mary McMillan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingsheng Hou, Mary McMillan

Affiliation School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Joëlle V. F. Coumans

Affiliations School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, School of Rural Medicine, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Anne Poljak

Affiliations Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, The School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mark J. Raftery

Affiliation Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lily Pereg

mailto:lily.pereg@une.edu.au

Affiliation School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH MM JC AP MR LP. Performed the experiments: XH MM JC AP MR LP. Analyzed the data: XH MM JC AP LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP MR LP. Wrote the paper: XH MM JC AP MR LP.