About the Authors

Jinli Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinli Wang, Kun Yang

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Kun Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinli Wang, Kun Yang

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Lin Zhou

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

MinhaoWu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Yongjian Wu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Min Zhu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

XiaoMin Lai

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Tao Chen

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

Lianqiang Feng

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Meiyu Li

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Chunyu Huang

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Qiu Zhong

zhongqiu@vip.163.com (QZ); huangxi6@mail.sysu.edu.cn (XH)

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

Xi Huang

zhongqiu@vip.163.com (QZ); huangxi6@mail.sysu.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute of Tuberculosis Control, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH QZ JW KY. Performed the experiments: JW KY YW MZ CH. Analyzed the data: XH QZ JW KY MW LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL ML LZ LF TC. Wrote the paper: XH QZ JW KY MW.