About the Authors

Cui Hua Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cui Hua Liu, Ling Li, Zhi Chen

cuihualiu@gmail.com (CHL); zhubaoli@im.ac.cn (BZ); pcywoo@hkucc.hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, China, Institute for Tuberculosis Research, the 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Ling Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Cui Hua Liu, Ling Li, Zhi Chen

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Zhi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Cui Hua Liu, Ling Li, Zhi Chen

Affiliation Institute for Tuberculosis Research, the 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Qi Wang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, China

Yong Liang Hu

Affiliation Institute for Tuberculosis Research, the 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Baoli Zhu

cuihualiu@gmail.com (CHL); zhubaoli@im.ac.cn (BZ); pcywoo@hkucc.hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, China

Patrick C. Y. Woo

cuihualiu@gmail.com (CHL); zhubaoli@im.ac.cn (BZ); pcywoo@hkucc.hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHL LL ZC BZ PCW. Performed the experiments: CHL LL ZC QW YLH. Analyzed the data: CHL LL ZC QW YLH BZ PCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHL BZ. Wrote the paper: CHL. Assisted in writing of the paper: LL ZC PCW. Read and approved the final manuscript: CHL LL ZC QW YLH BZ PCW.