About the Authors
- Xueyong Huang
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¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.
Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China
- Xi Zhang
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¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.
Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Kaifeng City, Zhengzhou, China
- Fang Wang
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¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.
Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Zhengzhou City, Zhengzhou, China
- Haiyan Wei
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Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China
- Hong Ma
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Affiliation Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China
- Meili Sui
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Affiliation College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Jie Lu
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Affiliation College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Huaili Wang
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Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- J. Stephen Dumler
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Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Guangyao Sheng
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* E-mail: bianlixu@163.com (BLX); shenggyfh@163.com (GYS)
Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Bianli Xu
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* E-mail: 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.