About the Authors

Guoliang Zhang

Affiliations Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Boping Zhou

Affiliation Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Shaoyuan Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jun Yue

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Hui Yang

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Yuxin Wen

Affiliation Department of Chest Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital, Jinan University, Shenzhen, China

Senlin Zhan

Affiliations Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Wenfei Wang

Affiliations Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Mingfeng Liao

Affiliations Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Mingxia Zhang

Affiliations Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Gucheng Zeng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control of the Ministry of Education, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Carl G. Feng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Christopher M. Sassetti

Christopher.sassetti@umassmed.edu (CMS); chenxinchun@hotmail.com (XC)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Xinchun Chen

Christopher.sassetti@umassmed.edu (CMS); chenxinchun@hotmail.com (XC)

Affiliations Guangdong Key Lab of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Lab of Infection and Immunity, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Guangdong Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZh BZ GZe CGF CMS XC. Performed the experiments: GZh BZ SL HY YW SZ WW ML. Analyzed the data: GZh SL YW WW MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY MZ GZe CGF. Wrote the paper: GZh CMS XC.