About the Authors

Xueyong Huang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China

Xi Zhang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Kaifeng City, Zhengzhou, China

Fang Wang

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Zhengzhou City, Zhengzhou, China

Haiyan Wei

Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China

Hong Ma

Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China

Meili Sui

Affiliation College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Jie Lu

Affiliation College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Huaili Wang

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

J. Stephen Dumler

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Guangyao Sheng

bianlixu@163.com (BLX); shenggyfh@163.com (GYS)

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Bianli Xu

bianlixu@163.com (BLX); shenggyfh@163.com (GYS)

Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XYH BLX. Performed the experiments: HYW MLS HM. Analyzed the data: XZ FW JL HLW GYS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYW HM MLS. Wrote the paper: XYH BLX JS Dumler.