About the Authors

Yi Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Barun Mathema

Affiliation Tuberculosis Center, Public Health Research Institute, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Weili Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Barry Kreiswirth

Affiliation Tuberculosis Center, Public Health Research Institute, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Weibing Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Biao Xu

bxu@shmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX WW YH. Performed the experiments: YH WJ WW. Analyzed the data: YH BX BM WJ BK. Wrote the paper: YH. Drafted revision: BX BM BK.