About the Authors

Shujie Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shujie Huang, Weiming Tang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STI Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, 510095, China

Weiming Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shujie Huang, Weiming Tang

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STI Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, 510095, China, University of North Carolina Project-China, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, 510095, China

Zhengjun Zhu

Affiliation Jiangmen Dermatology Hospital, No. 62 Yuejin Road, Jiangmen, 529000, China

Hekun Lu

Affiliation Jiangmen Dermatology Hospital, No. 62 Yuejin Road, Jiangmen, 529000, China

Xueling Tan

Affiliation Jiangmen Dermatology Hospital, No. 62 Yuejin Road, Jiangmen, 529000, China

Baoyuan Zhang

Affiliation Jiangmen Dermatology Hospital, No. 62 Yuejin Road, Jiangmen, 529000, China

John Best

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, United States of America

Ligang Yang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STI Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, 510095, China

Heping Zheng

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STI Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, 510095, China

Ning Jiang

Affiliation National Center for STD Control, China CDC. No. 12, Jiangwangmiao, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China

Yueping Yin

Affiliation National Center for STD Control, China CDC. No. 12, Jiangwangmiao, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China

Bin Yang

yangbin101@hotmail.com (BY); chenxs@ncstdlc.org (XC)

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STI Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, 510095, China

Xiangsheng Chen

yangbin101@hotmail.com (BY); chenxs@ncstdlc.org (XC)

Affiliation National Center for STD Control, China CDC. No. 12, Jiangwangmiao, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH LY NJ YY XC BY HL XT BZ ZZ HZ. Performed the experiments: SH BZ ZZ XT. Analyzed the data: WT NJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WT NJ. Wrote the paper: WT JB.