About the Authors

Guohong Ge

Current address: The Third Hospital of Zhenjiang City, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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

Yaping Han

Affiliations 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

Chunhua Zhang

Affiliations 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

Shan Lu

shan.lu@umassmed.edu

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

Zuhu Huang

Affiliations 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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL SW ZH. Performed the experiments: GG YH CZ. Analyzed the data: SW SL. Wrote the paper: SL.