About the Authors

Shuhui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuhui Liu, Bo Huang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Bo Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuhui Liu, Bo Huang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Haihua Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Xiaoyun Li

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Guangcan Chen

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Guohong Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Wengting Lin

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Dan Guo

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Jie Wang

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Zefeng Yu

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Xi Liu

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Min Su

minsu@stu.edu.cn

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS SL BH. Performed the experiments: SL BH HH. Analyzed the data: SL BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL GC WL DG GZ JW ZY XL. Wrote the paper: SL.