About the Authors
- Yihong Xie
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yihong Xie, Yi Tan
* E-mail: wallstreetxie@hotmail.com (YX); cvirasak@gmail.com (VC)
¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.
Affiliation Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, China
- Yi Tan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yihong Xie, Yi Tan
¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.
Affiliation Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, China
- Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
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* E-mail: wallstreetxie@hotmail.com (YX); cvirasak@gmail.com (VC)
Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, HatYai, Songkla, Thailand
- Xinghua Wu
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Affiliation Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, China
- Fuyin Bi
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Affiliation Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, China
- Stephen C. Hadler
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Affiliation Division of Bacterial Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Chuleeporn Jiraphongsa
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Affiliation International Field Epidemiology Training Program (IFETP), Bureau of Epidemiology, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
- Vorasith Sornsrivichai
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Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, HatYai, Songkla, Thailand
- Mei Lin
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Affiliation Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, China
- Yi Quan
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Affiliation Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YX YT XW SH ML YQ. Performed the experiments: YX YT XW SH ML YQ. Analyzed the data: YX VC SH CJ VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX YT VC FB SH CJ VS ML YQ. Wrote the paper: YX YT VC XW SH CJ VS. Designed the software used in analysis: YX VC.