About the Authors

Zhihui Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Chen, Yongzhe Zhu, Yanli Ren

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, Affiliated Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yongzhe Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Chen, Yongzhe Zhu, Yanli Ren

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yanli Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Chen, Yongzhe Zhu, Yanli Ren

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yimin Tong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xian Hua

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Fenghui Zhu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Libin Huang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yuan Luo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Wei Lu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ping Zhao

qizt@smmu.edu.cn (ZQ); pnzhao@163.com (PZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhongtian Qi

qizt@smmu.edu.cn (ZQ); pnzhao@163.com (PZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Biodefense, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ ZQ. Performed the experiments: ZC YZ YR YT XH FZ LH. Analyzed the data: ZC YZ YR PZ ZQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y Liu Y Luo WL. Wrote the paper: PZ ZQ.