About the Authors

Yong Wang

Affiliations College of Animal Science & Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, People’s Republic of China, Department of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Chuangfu Chen

zhanglijuan@icdc.cn (LJZ); ccf-xb@163.com (CFC)

Affiliation College of Animal Science & Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, People’s Republic of China

Lijuan Zhang

zhanglijuan@icdc.cn (LJZ); ccf-xb@163.com (CFC)

Affiliation Department of Rickettsiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJZ. Performed the experiments: YW. Analyzed the data: YW LJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CFC. Wrote the manuscript: YW LJZ.