About the Authors

Lina Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Niu, Fan Zhao, Jinlong Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine and Lifescience, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Fan Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Niu, Fan Zhao, Jinlong Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Jinlong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Niu, Fan Zhao, Jinlong Chen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine and Lifescience, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China

Jinqing Nong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Chunmei Wang

Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Jing Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Naishu Gao

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Xiaoxue Zhu

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Lei Wu

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Shoukui Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

shoukuihu@163.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

SH, FZ, LW, JN, NG, XZ et al. have filed for a patent from the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China, which includes the sequences and the MCDA-LFB method used to detect K. pneumoniae in this manuscript [application number CN 201810170208.6].