About the Authors

Ning Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Yang, Shujie Xie

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China

Shujie Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Yang, Shujie Xie

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China

Nga-Yeung Tang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China

Mei Yee Choi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ying Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Virology, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Rory M. Watt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rmwatt@hku.hk

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.