About the Authors

Miao Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Miao Jin, Yaqing He

Affiliations National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China, Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yaqing He

Contributed equally to this work with: Miao Jin, Yaqing He

Affiliation Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China

Huiying Li

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China

Pengwei Huang

Affiliation Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Weiming Zhong

Affiliation Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hong Yang

Affiliation Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China

Hailong Zhang

Affiliation Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China

Ming Tan

Ming.Tan@cchmc.org (MT); zhaojund@126.com (ZD)

Affiliations Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Zhao-jun Duan

Ming.Tan@cchmc.org (MT); zhaojund@126.com (ZD)

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT ZD. Performed the experiments: MJ YH HL HY HZ. Analyzed the data: MJ MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ PH. Wrote the paper: MJ YH MT.