About the Authors

Tao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Chen, Jinfei Lin, Wei Wang

‡ TC, JL, WW, and LC are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Jinfei Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Chen, Jinfei Lin, Wei Wang

‡ TC, JL, WW, and LC are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Wei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Chen, Jinfei Lin, Wei Wang

‡ TC, JL, WW, and LC are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Foshan Fourth People’s Hospital, Foshan, 528000, China

Joy Fleming

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100101, China

Liang Chen

‡ TC, JL, WW, and LC are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Yunxia Wang

Affiliation Bao’an Chronic Diseases Prevention and Cure Hospital, Shenzhen, 518102, China

Haicheng Li

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Huixin Guo

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Jie Zhou

Affiliation Foshan Fourth People’s Hospital, Foshan, 528000, China

Xunxun Chen

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Yuhui Chen

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Qinghua Liao

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Yang Shu

Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Yaoju Tan

Affiliation Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, 510095, China

Meiling Yu

Affiliation Chinese Medicine Hospital of Huangpu District, Guang zhou, 510700, China

Guozhou Li

Affiliation Chronic Disease Control and Prevention Station of Dongguan, Guangdong, 523008, China

Lin Zhou

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Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Qiu Zhong

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Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Control of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510630, China

Lijun Bi

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Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100101, China

Lina Guo

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Affiliation GuangDong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, GuangDong, 510120, China

Meigui Zhao

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Affiliation Bao’an Chronic Diseases Prevention and Cure Hospital, Shenzhen, 518102, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC JL LZ QZ. Performed the experiments: WW HL HG JZ XC. Analyzed the data: LB LG MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC QL YS YT MY GL LC YW. Wrote the paper: JF JL TC.