About the Authors

Wan Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Gynecology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Fei Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jiale Shi

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Qi Feng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Yuheng Chen

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaoyu Qi

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Cong Wang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Hongmei Lu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Zhongmou Lu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Xuemei Jia

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Qin Yan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Shou-Jiang Gao

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chun Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

clu@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Gynecology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.