About the Authors

Zhijie Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijie Liu, Han Zheng, Marcelo Gottschalk, Xuemei Bai

Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Huaihua Medical College, Huaihua, Hunan, China

Han Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijie Liu, Han Zheng, Marcelo Gottschalk, Xuemei Bai

Affiliation Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China

Marcelo Gottschalk

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijie Liu, Han Zheng, Marcelo Gottschalk, Xuemei Bai

Affiliation Groupe de recherché sur les maladies infectieuses Du Porc, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Xuemei Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijie Liu, Han Zheng, Marcelo Gottschalk, Xuemei Bai

Affiliation Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China

Ruiting Lan

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Shaobo Ji

Affiliation Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China

Haican Liu

Affiliation Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China

Jianguo Xu

xujianguo@icdc.cn

Affiliation Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL HZ JX. Performed the experiments: ZL. Analyzed the data: RL MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XB SJ. Wrote the manuscript: ZL. Designed the software used in analysis: HL.