About the Authors
- Shinya Watanabe
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Current address: Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Teruyo Ito
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* E-mail: teruybac@juntendo.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Takashi Sasaki
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Shanshuang Li
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Ikuo Uchiyama
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Affiliation National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
- Kozue Kishii
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Current address: Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Agents, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Ken Kikuchi
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Affiliations Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Robert Leo Skov
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Affiliation National Center for Antimicrobials and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Keiichi Hiramatsu
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Affiliations Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SW TI KH. Performed the experiments: SW TI TS SL KK. Analyzed the data: SW TI IU KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS KK KK RS. Wrote the paper: SW TI RS KH.