About the Authors

Qiao Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiao Tang, Di Qin, Zhigang Lv

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Affiliated Nanjing First Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Di Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiao Tang, Di Qin, Zhigang Lv

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Zhigang Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiao Tang, Di Qin, Zhigang Lv

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Xiaolei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Xinting Ma

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Qin Yan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Yi Zeng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Youjiang Medical College for Nationalities, Bose, People's Republic of China

Yuanyuan Guo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Ninghan Feng

Affiliation Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Chun Lu

clu@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QT DQ YZ CL. Performed the experiments: ZL XM QY YG. Analyzed the data: QT DQ ZL CL NF. Wrote the paper: XZ CL.