About the Authors

Zhong-hua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhong-hua Wang, Yan-bing Liang

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Unit, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yan-bing Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhong-hua Wang, Yan-bing Liang

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hao Tang

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhi-bin Chen

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhen-yu Li

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xu-chu Hu

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhong-fu Ma

mazhongfu06@sohu.com

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZFM XCH. Performed the experiments: ZHW YBL. Analyzed the data: HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZYL. Wrote the manuscript: ZBC.