About the Authors

Yi Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Cai, Qianting Yang, Yueqiang Tang

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Qianting Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Cai, Qianting Yang, Yueqiang Tang

Affiliations Guangdong Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Yueqiang Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Cai, Qianting Yang, Yueqiang Tang

Affiliations Guangdong Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Mingxia Zhang

Affiliation Guangdong Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Haiying Liu

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Guoliang Zhang

Affiliation Guangdong Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Qunyi Deng

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Jian Huang

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Disease and Health Genomics, National Engineering Center for Biochip at Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Zhiliang Gao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Boping Zhou

Affiliation Guangdong Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Carl G. Feng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney University, Australia

Xinchun Chen

chenxinchun@gmail.com

Affiliations Guangdong Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC BZ CF. Performed the experiments: QY YC YT MZ QD GZ. Analyzed the data: YC JH XC CF HL BZ ZG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT YC QY QD. Wrote the paper: XC YC CF.