About the Authors

Cheng Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Yang, Zhicui Liu, Ying Yang

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

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Zhicui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Yang, Zhicui Liu, Ying Yang

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ying Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Yang, Zhicui Liu, Ying Yang

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America, Hainan Academy of Medical Sciences, Hainan Medical University, Hainan, China

Luis J. Cocka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Yongguo Li

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

liyongguodoctor@163.com (YL); zwh8302@163.com (WZ); hshen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu (HS)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Weihong Zeng

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

liyongguodoctor@163.com (YL); zwh8302@163.com (WZ); hshen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu (HS)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryo Original Diseases, the International Peace Maternity & Child Health Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hao Shen

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

liyongguodoctor@163.com (YL); zwh8302@163.com (WZ); hshen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu (HS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.