About the Authors

Jinfeng Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinfeng Yang, Zhaozhen Xu

Affiliations Dept. of Immunology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China, Immunity & Infection Key laboratory of Heilongjiang Province, 150081 Harbin, China

Zhaozhen Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinfeng Yang, Zhaozhen Xu

Affiliation Dept. of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, First Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, China

Manshu Sui

Affiliation Dept. of Nephrology, First Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, China

Jihua Han

Affiliation Dept. of General Surgery, First Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, China

Lijie Sun

Affiliations Dept. of Immunology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China, Immunity & Infection Key laboratory of Heilongjiang Province, 150081 Harbin, China

Xiuzhi Jia

Affiliations Dept. of Immunology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China, Immunity & Infection Key laboratory of Heilongjiang Province, 150081 Harbin, China

Haiyu Zhang

Affiliation Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China

Changsong Han

Affiliation Dept. of Pathology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China

Xiaoming Jin

Affiliation Dept. of Pathology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China

Fei Gao

Affiliation Dept. of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Second Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, China

Yanhong Liu

Affiliation Dept. of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Second Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, China

Yang Li

Affiliation Dept. of Rheumatology, Second Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 150001 Harbin, China

Jianbin Cao

Affiliation Harbin center for disease control and prevention, 150081 Harbin, China

Hong Ling

Affiliation Dept. of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China

Fengmin Zhang

huanren2009@126.com; renhuan@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (HR); fengminzhang@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (FZ)

Affiliation Dept. of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China

Huan Ren

huanren2009@126.com; renhuan@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (HR); fengminzhang@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (FZ)

Affiliations Dept. of Immunology, Harbin Medical University, 150081 Harbin, China, Immunity & Infection Key laboratory of Heilongjiang Province, 150081 Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFY HR FMZ HL. Performed the experiments: ZZX JHH LJS XZJ JBC. Analyzed the data: FG YHL YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSH XMJ MSS. Wrote the paper: HR JFY. Re-evaluated statistic part: HYZ.