About the Authors

Henryk Urbanczyk

henryk@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Research Organization, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Yoshiko Urbanczyk

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Research Organization, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Tetsuya Hayashi

Affiliations Division of Bioenvironmental Science, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Yoshitoshi Ogura

Affiliations Division of Bioenvironmental Science, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HU TH YO. Performed the experiments: HU YU YO. Analyzed the data: HU YO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HU. Wrote the paper: HU.