About the Authors

Yanxia Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanxia Gao, Yi Li

Affiliation Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P.R.China

Yi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanxia Gao, Yi Li

Affiliation Emergency Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, P.R.China

Xuezhong Yu

Affiliation Emergency Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, P.R.China

Shigong Guo

Affiliation St Mary's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Xu Ji

Affiliation Clinical Specimen Bank, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Tongwen Sun

Affiliation Integrated Intensive Care unit, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P.R.China

Chao Lan

Affiliation Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P.R.China

Valery Lavergne

Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, Sacré-Coeur Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Marc Ghannoum

Affiliation Department of Specialized Medicine, Verdun Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Li Li

lililovechina2013@163.com

Affiliation Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P.R.China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL YG. Performed the experiments: TS CL XY. Analyzed the data: XJ XY MG VL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG VL. Wrote the paper: SG YL YG MG VL.