Acknowledgments
The study was approved by the Ethical Review Board of the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University. We thank all the participants for the collected data and tested specimens.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Authors’ conflict of interest disclosure: The authors stated that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this article.
Research funding: This work was funded by the China National Mega-projects for Infectious Diseases (2012ZX10004-210 to Yu Chen).
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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