About the Authors

Xue-Lan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Lan Li, Hai-Xia Wei

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, the People's Republic of China

Hai-Xia Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Lan Li, Hai-Xia Wei

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, the People's Republic of China

Hao Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, the People's Republic of China, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology Unit, Nanfang Hospital attached to Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, and the People's Republic of China,

Hong-Juan Peng

hongjuan@smu.edu.cn (HP); lindsayd@vt.edu (DL)

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, the People's Republic of China

David S. Lindsay

hongjuan@smu.edu.cn (HP); lindsayd@vt.edu (DL)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, Duck Pond Drive, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJP DSL. Performed the experiments: XLL HXW HZ. Analyzed the data: XLL HXW HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLL HXW HZ. Wrote the paper: XLL HXW.