About the Authors
- Xue-Lan Li
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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
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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
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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
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* E-mail: 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
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* E-mail: 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.