About the Authors

Tomoyuki Yamaguchi

Affiliation Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan

Kazumasa Yokoyama

Affiliation Central Research Laboratory, Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Azumino, Japan

Chie Nakajima

Affiliations Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yasuhiko Suzuki

suzuki@czc.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

Although KY belongs to a commercial company, Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, he has no competing interests with the work in this manuscript. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TY KY CN YS. Data curation: TY KY CN YS. Funding acquisition: TY YS. Investigation: TY KY CN YS. Methodology: TY KY CN YS. Project administration: CN YS. Resources: TY KY CN YS. Supervision: CN YS. Validation: TY KY CN YS. Visualization: TY KY CN YS. Writing – original draft: TY. Writing – review & editing: CN YS.