About the Authors

Ping Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Zhao, Fang Fang

Affiliation Tuberculosis Clinic, Chaoyang Distric Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Fang Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Zhao, Fang Fang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Department of Endocrinology Chongqing No. 1 People's Hospital, Jiangbei District, Chongqing City, P.R. China

Qin Yu

Affiliation Tuberculosis Clinic, Chaoyang Distric Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Jiao Guo

Affiliation Tuberculosis Clinic, Chaoyang Distric Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Jian-hua Zhang

Affiliation Tuberculosis Clinic, Chaoyang Distric Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Jifu Qu

jifuqu@126.com

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Yuzhong District, Chongqing City, P.R. China

Yingjie Liu

Affiliation Tuberculosis Clinic, Chaoyang Distric Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQ PZ FF. Performed the experiments: JG JZ QY. Analyzed the data: PZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL. Wrote the paper: PZ.