About the Authors

Nan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Rong Wang

wangrong825@126.com (WR); yundeliu@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, School of Laboratory Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Xue Li

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, School of Laboratory Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Xu Liu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Zhaobing Tang

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yunde Liu

wangrong825@126.com (WR); yundeliu@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, School of Laboratory Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RW YL. Performed the experiments: NZ. Analyzed the data: NZ RW X. Li. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Liu. Wrote the paper: NZ RW ZT.