About the Authors

Qiwei Zhang

zhang.qiwei@yahoo.com (QZ); bzheng@hkucc.hku.hk (BJZ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaomin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Hao Wu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Donald Seto

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Hao-Jie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Zhiwei Chen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, AIDS Institute, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chengsong Wan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Bo-Jian Zheng

zhang.qiwei@yahoo.com (QZ); bzheng@hkucc.hku.hk (BJZ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ BJZ. Performed the experiments: QZ XZ HW HJZ ZC. Analyzed the data: QZ XZ HW DS ZC BJZ. Wrote the paper: QZ DS ZC CW BJZ.