About the Authors

Yingying Li

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Peking University Health Science Center School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Guangxiang Luo

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

gluo@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.