About the Authors

Weilie Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Weilie Chen, Baolin Liao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Baolin Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Weilie Chen, Baolin Liao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Fengyu Hu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jingmin Nie

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Yun Lan

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Huiqin Li

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Yunnan Provincial Infectious Disease Hospital, Yunnan, China

Ruichao Lu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Longtan Hospital, Guangxi, China

Yanqing Gao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yuxia Song

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Xinjiang No. 6 People’s Hospital, Xinjiang, China

Qingxia Zhao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Zhenzhou No. 6 People’s Hospital, Zhenzhou, China

Yuhuang Zheng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Zhongnan University, Changsha, China

Xiaoping Tang

xtang@21cn.com (XPT); gz8hcwp@126.com (WPC)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Weiping Cai

xtang@21cn.com (XPT); gz8hcwp@126.com (WPC)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WLC BLL XPT WPC. Data curation: WLC BLL XPT WPC. Formal analysis: WLC BLL WPC. Investigation: WLC BLL XPT WPC. Methodology: WLC BLL FYH XPT WPC. Project administration: WLC WPC. Resources: WLC BLL FYH JMN YL HQL RCL YQG YXS QXZ YHZ XPT WPC. Software: WLC BLL. Supervision: WLC WPC. Validation: WLC BLL XPT WPC. Visualization: XPT WPC. Writing – original draft: WLC BLL XPT WPC. Writing – review & editing: WLC BLL XPT WPC.