About the Authors

Yizhong Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xu Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Li Ye

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Center for Animal Experiment/ABSL-3 Laboratory, Wuhan University, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Jieliang Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Li Song

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nilija Fulambarkar

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wenzhe Ho

wenzheho@temple.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Center for Animal Experiment/ABSL-3 Laboratory, Wuhan University, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZW XW LY JLL LS NF WZH. Performed the experiments: YZW XW LY JLL. Analyzed the data: YZW XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZW XW LY. Wrote the paper: YZW WZH.