About the Authors

Chun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun Xu, Peijun Tang

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Peijun Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun Xu, Peijun Tang

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, The Affiliated Infectious Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Cheng Ding

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Chang Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Jun Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Zhenlei Xu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Yi Mao

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Meiying Wu

zhaojia0327@126.com (JZ); wu_my@126.com (MW)

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis, The Affiliated Infectious Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Jun Zhao

zhaojia0327@126.com (JZ); wu_my@126.com (MW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ MW. Performed the experiments: CX PT. Analyzed the data: MW ZX YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL CD. Wrote the paper: CX JC.