About the Authors

Calvin Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Calvin Pan, Yurong Gu

Affiliation Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yurong Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Calvin Pan, Yurong Gu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yubao Zheng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Liang Peng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Hong Deng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Youming Chen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Lubiao Chen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Sui Chen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Min Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zhiliang Gao

zlgao99@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Third Affiliated, Hospital of Sun-Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CQP YG ZG DC LC HD YC. Performed the experiments: YG WZ LP YZ SC MZ. Analyzed the data: CQP YG ZG DC LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GQP YG ZG. Wrote the paper: CQP YG ZG.