About the Authors

Yan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Tong Chen, Sajith Raghunandanan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Optometry and Eye Hospital and School of Ophthalmology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Tong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Tong Chen, Sajith Raghunandanan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sajith Raghunandanan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Tong Chen, Sajith Raghunandanan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Xuwu Xiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Jing Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Qiang Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Diane G. Edmondson

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UTHealth Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Steven J. Norris

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UTHealth Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

X. Frank Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xfyang@iu.edu (XFY); lyl@wmu.edu.cn (YL)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Yongliang Lou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

xfyang@iu.edu (XFY); lyl@wmu.edu.cn (YL)

Affiliation Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.