About the Authors

Jun Miao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jmiao1@usf.edu (JM); liwangcui@usf.edu (LC)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Chengqi Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Amuza Byaruhanga Lucky

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Xiaoying Liang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Hui Min

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Swamy Rakesh Adapa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Rays Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Kami Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Liwang Cui

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

jmiao1@usf.edu (JM); liwangcui@usf.edu (LC)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.