About the Authors

Anding Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anding Zhang, Bo Chen

Affiliations Unit of Animal Infectious Diseases, National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Bo Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Anding Zhang, Bo Chen

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Zhengzhi Yuan

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Ran Li

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Cheng Liu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Hongbo Zhou

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Huanchun Chen

Affiliations Unit of Animal Infectious Diseases, National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Meilin Jin

jml8328@126.com

Affiliations Unit of Animal Infectious Diseases, National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ HC MJ. Performed the experiments: AZ BC ZY RL CL. Analyzed the data: AZ BC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ. Wrote the paper: AZ.