About the Authors

Yanan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanan Liu, Baoju Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Baoju Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanan Liu, Baoju Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lu Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Vikash Vikash

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qin Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Michael Roggendorf

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Mengji Lu

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Dongliang Yang

dlyang@hust.edu.cn (DY); jialiu77@hotmail.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jia Liu

dlyang@hust.edu.cn (DY); jialiu77@hotmail.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YL JL ML. Data curation: YL JL. Formal analysis: YL JL. Funding acquisition: DY MR. Investigation: YL JL. Methodology: YL JL LW. Project administration: JL DY MR. Resources: YL JL BW ML MR. Software: YL JL QW. Supervision: DY MR. Writing – original draft: YL. Writing – review & editing: YL JL VV.