About the Authors

Takuya Akiyama

takuya.akiyama@yher.be (TA); andy.wullaert@ugent.be (AW)

Affiliation Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Ghent, Belgium

Kenji Oishi

Affiliations Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Ghent, Belgium, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Andy Wullaert

takuya.akiyama@yher.be (TA); andy.wullaert@ugent.be (AW)

Affiliations Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology ESV, Ghent, Belgium, Inflammation Research Center, VIB, Ghent, Belgium, Internal Medicine Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TA AW. Formal analysis: TA AW. Funding acquisition: KO AW. Investigation: TA AW. Methodology: TA AW. Project administration: KO AW. Resources: TA KO AW. Supervision: KO AW. Validation: TA AW. Visualization: TA AW. Writing – original draft: AW. Writing – review & editing: TA KO AW.