About the Authors

Chunfan Jiang

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Department of pathology, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, Hubei, China

Tao Huang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Yun Wang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Guowei Huang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Xia Wan

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Jiang Gu

jguemailbox@gmail.com.

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Translational Medicine Center, Second Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG CJ. Performed the experiments: CJ TH GH XW. Analyzed the data: CJ TH YW GH XW JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ TH YW GH XW. Wrote the paper: CJ YW JG.