About the Authors

Lu Long

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ting Yuan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China

Min Wang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chuan Xu

Affiliation Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jieyun Yin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Chengliang Xiong

Affiliation Institute of Family Planning, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Sheng Wei

sf_nie@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (SN); ws2008cn@gmail.com (SW)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shaofa Nie

sf_nie@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (SN); ws2008cn@gmail.com (SW)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN SW CLX. Performed the experiments: SW LL TY MW CX JY CLX. Analyzed the data: LL SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL SW. Wrote the paper: LL SW SN.