About the Authors

Xuelian Yu

Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Hongkou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jing Zhang

Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Hongkou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Liang Hong

Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Hongkou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jiayu Wang

Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Hongkou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zhengan Yuan

Affiliation Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hongkou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xi Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Zhang, Reena Ghildyal

Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Hongkou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Reena Ghildyal

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Zhang, Reena Ghildyal

Reena.Ghildyal@canberra.edu.au

Affiliation Respiratory Virology Group, Centre for Research in Therapeutic Solutions, Faculty of Applied Science, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY JW XZ ZY. Performed the experiments: JZ LH XY JW. Analyzed the data: XY XZ. Wrote the paper: XY XZ RG.