About the Authors

Jing-ying Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing-ying Xiao, Ji-Yun Lee

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan, Department of Parasitology, Basic Medical College, Jiamusi University, Jiamusi, China

Ji-Yun Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing-ying Xiao, Ji-Yun Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Environmental Biology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Shinji Tokuhiro

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Mitsuru Nagataki

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Blanca R. Jarilla

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Haruka Nomura

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Tae Im Kim

Affiliation Department of Medical Environmental Biology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sung-Jong Hong

hongsj@cau.ac.kr (SJH); agatsuma@kochi.u.ac.jp (TA)

Affiliation Department of Medical Environmental Biology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Takeshi Agatsuma

hongsj@cau.ac.kr (SJH); agatsuma@kochi.u.ac.jp (TA)

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing financial interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA SJH. Performed the experiments: JyX JYL ST MN BRJ. Analyzed the data: JyX JYL BRJ HN TIK SJH TA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN SJH TA. Wrote the paper: JyX JYL TIK SJH TA.