About the Authors

Lijuan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Zhang, Guiqiang Wang, Qinghui Liu, Chuangfu Chen

zhanglijuan@icdc.cn (LZ); wanggq@hotmail.com (GW)

Affiliation Departments of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Guiqiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Zhang, Guiqiang Wang, Qinghui Liu, Chuangfu Chen

zhanglijuan@icdc.cn (LZ); wanggq@hotmail.com (GW)

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

Qinghui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Zhang, Guiqiang Wang, Qinghui Liu, Chuangfu Chen

Affiliation Departments of Intensive Care, Shandong Laizhou People's Hospital, Laizhou, Shandong Province, China

Chuangfu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Zhang, Guiqiang Wang, Qinghui Liu, Chuangfu Chen

Affiliation Animal Science & Technology College, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, China

Jun Li

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

Bo Long

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, Yantai Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province, China

Hong Yu

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, Yantai Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province, China

Zhilun Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tianjin, China

Jing He

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing, China

Zhangyi Qu

Affiliation School of Public health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Jiguang Yu

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, Yantai Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province, China

Yuanni Liu

Affiliation Departments of Infectious Diseases, Yantai Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province, China

Tuo Dong

Affiliations Departments of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, School of Public health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Na Yao

Affiliations Departments of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Animal Science & Technology College, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, China

Yong Wang

Affiliations Departments of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Animal Science & Technology College, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, China

Xueqin Cheng

Affiliation Departments of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Jianguo Xu

Affiliation Departments of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJZ GQW CFC JGX. Performed the experiments: QHL JL BL HY ZLZ JH JGY YNL. Analyzed the data: ZYQ TD NY YW XQC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QHL JL BL HY ZLZ JH JGY YNL. Wrote the paper: LJZ.