About the Authors

Yohei Kurosaki

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

N’Faly Magassouba

Affiliations Laboratoire des Fièvres Hémorragiques en Guinée, Conakry, Guinea, Hôpital National Donka, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Conakry, Guinea, Université Gamal Abdel Nasser, Conakry, Guinea

Olamide K. Oloniniyi

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Mahamoud S. Cherif

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Saori Sakabe

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Ayato Takada

Affiliation Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Kenji Hirayama

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Jiro Yasuda

j-yasuda@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK NM MSC JY. Performed the experiments: YK OKO SS JY. Analyzed the data: YK NM JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK NM AT KH JY. Wrote the paper: YK NM OKO MSC AT JY.