About the Authors

Yinrong Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinrong Qiu, Jixin Yang

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jixin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinrong Qiu, Jixin Yang

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Wenmei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Wentao Zhao

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Fei Peng

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ying Xiang

Affiliation Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Gang Chen

Affiliation Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Tao Chen

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

Chengwei Chai

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shuaiyu Zheng

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Daniel J. Watkins

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Jiexiong Feng

fengjiexiong@126.com

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji 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

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQ JY GC JF. Performed the experiments: YQ JY WW WZ FP YX TC CC SZ DJW. Analyzed the data: YQ JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF. Wrote the paper: JY.