About the Authors

Su Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Su Wang, Sheng-Yuan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Sheng-Yuan Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Su Wang, Sheng-Yuan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Shu-Zhen Xiao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Fei-Fei Gu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qing-Zhong Liu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jin Tang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Xiao-Kui Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yu-Xing Ni

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Li-Zhong Han

hanlizhong1107@163.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZH SW SYZ. Performed the experiments: SW SYZ SZX FFG. Analyzed the data: XKG YXN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZH YXN XKG. Wrote the paper: SW SYZ LZH. Collected the isolates: QZL JT SZX FFG.