About the Authors

Wei Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Zhou, Juan-Hua Quan, Young-Ha Lee

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Juan-Hua Quan

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Zhou, Juan-Hua Quan, Young-Ha Lee

Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea, Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Young-Ha Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Zhou, Juan-Hua Quan, Young-Ha Lee

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Dae-Whan Shin

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Guang-Ho Cha

gcha@cnu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ JQ YL GC. Performed the experiments: WZ JQ. Analyzed the data: WZ JQ YL GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL DS GC. Wrote the paper: WZ GC.