About the Authors
- Feng Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Yang, Moses M. Njire, Jia Liu
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Moses M. Njire
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Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Yang, Moses M. Njire, Jia Liu
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Jia Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Yang, Moses M. Njire, Jia Liu
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Tian Wu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Bangxing Wang
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Tianzhou Liu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Yuanyuan Cao
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Zhiyong Liu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Junting Wan
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Zhengchao Tu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Yaoju Tan
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Shouyong Tan
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Tianyu Zhang
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* E-mail: zhang_tianyu@gibh.ac.cn
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Competing Interests
The important plasmids including pOPHI and engineered strains were applied for patent (ZL 201210183007.2) and authorized. The patent title is "The plasmid pOPHI and construction of unmarked, more stable autoluminescent mycobacteria". This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FY MMN JL TW TZ. Performed the experiments: FY MMN JL TW BW TL YC ZL JW ZT TZ. Analyzed the data: FY MMN JL TW BW TL YC JW ZT YT ST TZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL ZT YT ST TZ. Wrote the paper: FY MMN JL YT ST TZ.