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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFC0842000).
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Compliance and ethics
The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest. All animal experiments were performed in the Kunming National High-Level Biosafety Research Center for Non-Human Primates, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, KIZ, CAS, according to the guidelines of the Committee on Animals of KIZ, CAS (approval No.: IACUC20005). All authors state that they conformed with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 concerning Human and Animal Rights.
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