About the Authors

Weifeng Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Weifeng Tang, Hao Qiu, Hao Ding

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Hao Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weifeng Tang, Hao Qiu, Hao Ding

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Hao Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Weifeng Tang, Hao Qiu, Hao Ding

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, Affiliated People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Bin Sun

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Lixin Wang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Jun Yin

yin912@126.com (JY); haiyong_gu@hotmail.com (HG)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Haiyong Gu

yin912@126.com (JY); haiyong_gu@hotmail.com (HG)

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG JY. Performed the experiments: WT HQ HD. Analyzed the data: WT HQ HD BS LW HG JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HG JY. Wrote the manuscript: WT HQ HG JY.