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aThe Second Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China bThe Third Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China cDepartment of Infectious disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang,People's Republic of China Hanke Ye and Meiyin Zhou contributed equally to this work and share first authorship. Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 318 Chaowang Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310005, People's Republic of China. E-mail address: [email protected] (Q. Ru). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/