About the Authors

Xiaochun Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaochun Shi, Lifan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Lifan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaochun Shi, Lifan Zhang

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Peking Union Medical College, International Clinical Epidemiology Network, Beijing, China

Yueqiu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Baotong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiaoqing Liu

liuxqpumch@126.com

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Peking Union Medical College, International Clinical Epidemiology Network, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQL. Performed the experiments: LFZ YQZ. Analyzed the data: XCS LFZ XQL. Wrote the paper: XCS LFZ XQL. Managed clinical information and diagnosis: XCS BTZ XQL.