About the Authors

Feifei Zou

Contributed equally to this work with: Feifei Zou, Chen Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Chen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Feifei Zou, Chen Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Daibin Zhong

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Bo Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Donghui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Qin Guo

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Weijie Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Jing Yu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Yuan Lv

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Zhentao Lei

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Kai Ma

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Lei Ma

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Changliang Zhu

clzhu@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Guiyun Yan

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ GY BS D. Zhong. Performed the experiments: FZ CC QG WW YL JY ZL KM LM. Analyzed the data: FZ CC D. Zhong GY CZ D. Zhang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FZ CC LM. Wrote the paper: FZ GY D. Zhong CZ.