About the Authors

Jianjun Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianjun Wu, Zhefeng Meng

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China

Zhefeng Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianjun Wu, Zhefeng Meng

zhefengm@hotmail.com(ZM); sub@ahcdc.com.cn(BS)

Affiliation Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jianqing Xu

Affiliation Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health at Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yanhua Lei

Affiliation Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China

Lin Jin

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China

Ping Zhong

Affiliation Department of AIDS/STD, Shanghai Municipal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Renzhi Han

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Health Science Division, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Bin Su

zhefengm@hotmail.com(ZM); sub@ahcdc.com.cn(BS)

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZM BS. Performed the experiments: JW ZM PZ. Analyzed the data: ZM JW BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX YL LJ. Wrote the paper: ZM JW.