About the Authors

Lijuan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Wu, Xiaomao Yin

Affiliations Laboratory Medical Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Clinical Laboratory, Bao’an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Xiaomao Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijuan Wu, Xiaomao Yin

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Lei Zheng

Affiliation Laboratory Medical Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Jianhua Zou

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Bao’an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Ping Jin

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Bao’an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Yanwei Hu

Affiliation Laboratory Medical Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Timothy Kudinha

Affiliation Charles Sturt University, Leeds Parade, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

Fanrong Kong

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

Xu Chen

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Bao’an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Qian Wang

nfyyWangQian@163.com

Affiliation Laboratory Medical Centre, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW LZ QW. Performed the experiments: LW XY YH. Analyzed the data: LW XY LZ FK PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ QW XC FK YH. Wrote the paper: LW FK TK PJ QW. Isolated and collected the strains: LW JZ. Contributed clinical data: PJ XC.