About the Authors

Chen Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Zhang, Qingrong Qu

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Diagnosis, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Center of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Qingrong Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Zhang, Qingrong Qu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yuming Yao

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Diagnosis, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaobo Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

101011951@seu.edu.cn (XF); 101008404@seu.edu.cn (GW)

Affiliation Department of Diagnosis, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Guoqiu Wu

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

101011951@seu.edu.cn (XF); 101008404@seu.edu.cn (GW)

Affiliations Department of Diagnosis, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Center of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.