About the Authors

Quan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan Hu, Banghua Chen

powerhu21@yahoo.com (QH); Xin11@hotmail.com (XZ)

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China

Banghua Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan Hu, Banghua Chen

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China

Zerong Zhu

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China

Junhua Tian

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China

Yu Zhou

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiaoyong Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany

Xin Zheng

powerhu21@yahoo.com (QH); Xin11@hotmail.com (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QH BC. Performed the experiments: BC ZZ JT YZ. Analyzed the data: BC X. Zhang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ JT YZ. Wrote the paper: QH BC X. Zheng ZZ.