About the Authors

Sheng-He Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Lin Wang, Feng Chi

shhuang@hsc.usc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Lin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Lin Wang, Feng Chi

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Feng Chi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Lin Wang, Feng Chi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chun-Hua Wu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hong Cao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Aimin Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Failure, The 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Ambrose Jong

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJ FC HC LW SHH. Performed the experiments: CHW FC LW SHH. Analyzed the data: AJ AZ FC LW SHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ SHH. Wrote the paper: AJ SHH.