About the Authors

Wenling Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenling Wang, Baoying Huang

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Baoying Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenling Wang, Baoying Huang

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Tao Jiang

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiuping Wang

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiangrong Qi

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yingying Gao

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Wenjie Tan

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Li Ruan

ruanl@bbn.cn

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control & Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW BH LR. Performed the experiments: WW BH TJ XW XQ YG. Analyzed the data: WW BH LR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW. Wrote the paper: WW LR. Revised the article critically: WW WT LR. Final approval of the version of the article to be published: LR.