About the Authors

Liyan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Liyan Chen, Feng Ren

Affiliation The 2nd Department of Infectious Diseases, the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, People’s Republic of China

Feng Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Liyan Chen, Feng Ren

Affiliations Beijing Institute of Liver Diseases, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Haiyan Zhang

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Liver Diseases, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Tao Wen

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Liver Diseases, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Zhengfu Piao

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Liver Diseases, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Li Zhou

Affiliation Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Sujun Zheng

Affiliation Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jing Zhang

Affiliation Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yu Chen

Affiliation Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yuanping Han

Affiliation Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Zhongping Duan

Affiliation Beijing Artificial Liver Treatment & Training Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yingji Ma

mayingji20050929@163.com

Affiliation The Department of Infectious Diseases, The 4th Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZD YM. Performed the experiments: LC FR HZ LZ ZP. Analyzed the data: TW SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ YC. Wrote the paper: FR YH.