About the Authors

Ping-Wei Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Wei Zhao, Wei-Guang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Wei-Guang Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Wei Zhao, Wei-Guang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Li Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Zhen-Yu Jiang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatism, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Yu-Xing Shan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Yan-Fang Jiang

yanfangjiang@hotmail.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, The First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJ. Performed the experiments: PZ WJ. Analyzed the data: ZJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW. Wrote the paper: PZ YJ. Designed the software used in analysis: YS.