About the Authors

Man-Qing Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Qing Liu, Dun-Jin Zhou

Affiliation Division of Virology, Wuhan Center for Disease Prevention & Control, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Dun-Jin Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Qing Liu, Dun-Jin Zhou

Affiliation Division of Virology, Wuhan Center for Disease Prevention & Control, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Xu Wang

Affiliations The Center for Animal Experiment Animal and Biosafety Level III Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wang Zhou

Affiliation Division of Virology, Wuhan Center for Disease Prevention & Control, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Li Ye

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

Jie-Liang Li

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

Yi-Zhong Wang

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

Wen-Zhe Ho

wenzheho@temple.edu

Affiliations The Center for Animal Experiment Animal and Biosafety Level III Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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