About the Authors

Jing-Yi Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing-Yi Yu, Bao Zhang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China, Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States of America

Bao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing-Yi Yu, Bao Zhang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China, Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States of America

Liang Peng

Affiliations Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States of America, Department of Clinic Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510260, China

Chun-Hua Wu

Affiliation Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States of America

Hong Cao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China

John F. Zhong

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, United States of America, Department of Perio, Diagnostic Sciences & Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 93003, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 93003, United States of America

Jill Hoffman

Affiliation Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States of America

Sheng-He Huang

shhuang@hsc.usc.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China, Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH JY BZ JZ HC JH. Performed the experiments: JY BZ CW LP. Analyzed the data: SH JY BZ JZ JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ. Wrote the paper: SH JY BZ.