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Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Virology, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ² Animal Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory/Institute for Vaccine Research, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ³ Department of Emergency, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ⁴ State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, TaiKang Center for Life and Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ⁶ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. zhuchengliang@whu.edu.cn.
• ⁷ State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, TaiKang Center for Life and Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. chenyu@whu.edu.cn.
• ⁸ Animal Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory/Institute for Vaccine Research, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. klan@whu.edu.cn.
• ⁹ State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, TaiKang Center for Life and Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. klan@whu.edu.cn.