About the Authors

Liuying Tang

tangly812@hotmail.com

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Junjing An

Affiliation Fengtai District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhengde Xie

Affiliation Beijing Institute for Pediatric Research, Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Children’s Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Shoaleh Dehghan

Affiliations School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, Chemistry Department, American University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Donald Seto

Affiliation School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Wenbo Xu

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yixin Ji

Affiliation National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LYT. Performed the experiments: JJA. Analyzed the data: SD DS YXJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZDX WBX. Wrote the paper: LYT DS.