About the Authors
- Masamitsu Kono
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masamitsu Kono, Muneki Hotomi
Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-city, Wakayama, Japan
- Muneki Hotomi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Masamitsu Kono, Muneki Hotomi
* E-mail: mhotomi@wakayama-med.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-city, Wakayama, Japan
- Susan K. Hollingshead
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- David E. Briles
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Noboru Yamanaka
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama-city, Wakayama, Japan
Competing Interests
David E. Briles and Susan K. Hollingshead are faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which owns some intellectual property relating to PspA. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MH MK. Performed the experiments: MH MK. Analyzed the data: MH MK SKH DEB NY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH MK SKH DEB NY. Wrote the paper: MH MK SKH DEB NY.