About the Authors

Li-Qun Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Qun Fang, Sake J. de Vlas, Song Liang

Affiliations Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sake J. de Vlas

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Qun Fang, Sake J. de Vlas, Song Liang

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Song Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Qun Fang, Sake J. de Vlas, Song Liang

Affiliation College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Caspar W. N. Looman

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Peng Gong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Bing Xu

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Lei Yan

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Hong Yang

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jan Hendrik Richardus

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Wu-Chun Cao

caowc@nic.bmi.ac.cn

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Sd JR WC LF. Analyzed the data: Sd JR HY WC LF CL PG LY SL BX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR HY LF CL PG LY SL. Wrote the paper: Sd WC LF SL BX. Other: Coordinated the study as the principal investigator: WC.