About the Authors

Ming Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhao, Xia Li

Affiliations Department of TB Control, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xia Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhao, Xia Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Peng Xu

Affiliations Department of TB Control, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xin Shen

Affiliation Department of TB Control, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Xiaohong Gui

Affiliation Department of TB Control, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Lili Wang

Affiliation Department of TB Control, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Kathryn DeRiemer

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jian Mei

meijiansh@yahoo.com.cn (JM); qgao99@yahoo.com (QG)

Affiliation Department of TB Control, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Qian Gao

meijiansh@yahoo.com.cn (JM); qgao99@yahoo.com (QG)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences and Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM QG. Performed the experiments: MZ PX XG LW. Analyzed the data: MZ XL XS KD JM QG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG LW. Wrote the paper: XL KD JM QG.