About the Authors

Haoming Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Haoming Wu, Abinash Padhi, Junqiang Xu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Abinash Padhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Haoming Wu, Abinash Padhi, Junqiang Xu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Junqiang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Haoming Wu, Abinash Padhi, Junqiang Xu

Affiliation Hubei Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiaoyan Gong

tienpo@sun.im.ac.cn (PT); xygong@whu.edu.cn (XG)

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Po Tien

tienpo@sun.im.ac.cn (PT); xygong@whu.edu.cn (XG)

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XG. Performed the experiments: HW XG. Analyzed the data: AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT XG. Wrote the paper: XG AP HW JX PT. Patients' enrollment and follow up: JX.