About the Authors

Shixia Wang

Affiliations China-US Vaccine Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anthony Hackett

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Na Jia

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, and State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing, China

Chunhua Zhang

Affiliations Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory in Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, China-US Vaccine Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lu Zhang

Affiliations Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory in Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, China-US Vaccine Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chris Parker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

An Zhou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jun Li

Affiliations Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory in Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, China-US Vaccine Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wu-Chun Cao

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, and State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing, China

Zuhu Huang

Affiliations Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory in Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, China-US Vaccine Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yan Li

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Shan Lu

shan.lu@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory in Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, China-US Vaccine Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW SL. Performed the experiments: AH NJ CZ LZ CP AZ. Analyzed the data: SW SL YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL WC ZH. Wrote the paper: SW SL.