About the Authors

Yinlan Bai

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jun Yang

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Xin Zhou

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Xinxin Ding

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Leslie E. Eisele

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Guangchun Bai

baig@mail.amc.edu.

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB YB. Performed the experiments: YB JY XZ LEE GB. Analyzed the data: YB GB XZ XD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB XD LEE. Wrote the paper: GB.