About the Authors

YiQuan Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: YiQuan Xiong, JianDong Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

JianDong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: YiQuan Xiong, JianDong Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

ShuJuan Ma

Affiliation School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jing Ge

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

LiZhi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Dongliang Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Qing Chen

qch.2009@163.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QC JDL. Data curation: YQX LZZ JG. Formal analysis: YQX LZZ JG. Investigation: JG. Methodology: YQX. Project administration: JDL. Resources: DL. Software: JDL. Supervision: QC. Validation: SJM. Visualization: YQX. Writing – original draft: YQX JDL. Writing – review & editing: QC.