About the Authors

Xuefeng Wang

wangxxff1023@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Central Laboratory, The Affiliated People's Hospital, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Liyang Dong

Affiliation Department of Central Laboratory, The Affiliated People's Hospital, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Hongchang Ni

Affiliation Department of Central Laboratory, The Affiliated People's Hospital, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Sha Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Zhipeng Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Jason Shih Hoellwarth

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Xiaojun Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Rongbo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Qiaoyun Chen

Affiliation Department of Central Laboratory, The Affiliated People's Hospital, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Feng Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Jun Wang

Affiliation Department of Central Laboratory, The Affiliated People's Hospital, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Chuan Su

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW CS. Performed the experiments: XW LD HN SZ ZX. Analyzed the data: JSH XC RZ QC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL JW. Wrote the paper: XW.