About the Authors

Zhefeng Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhefeng Meng, Ruolei Xin, Ping Zhong

Affiliation Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ruolei Xin

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhefeng Meng, Ruolei Xin, Ping Zhong

Affiliation Department of AIDS/STD, Beijing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Ping Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhefeng Meng, Ruolei Xin, Ping Zhong

Affiliation Department of AIDS/STD, Shanghai Municipal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Chiyu Zhang

Affiliation Pathogen Diagnostic Center, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yassir F. Abubakar

Affiliation Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jingyun Li

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Science, Beijing, China

Wei Liu

Affiliation Guangxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, China

Xiaoyan Zhang

jianqingxu2008@gmail.com (JX); zhang_xycn2002@yahoo.com.cn (XZ)

Affiliations Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China

Jianqing Xu

jianqingxu2008@gmail.com (JX); zhang_xycn2002@yahoo.com.cn (XZ)

Affiliations Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZM JX. Performed the experiments: ZM PZ RX. Analyzed the data: ZM YFA CZ XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL WL CZ. Wrote the paper: ZM PZ JX. Designed the software used in analysis: CZ.