About the Authors

Alex Kiarie Gaithuma

Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kiariegaithuma@gmail.com (AKG); junya@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (JY); sugimoto@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (CS)

Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Junya Yamagishi

Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kiariegaithuma@gmail.com (AKG); junya@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (JY); sugimoto@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (CS)

Affiliations Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, GI-CORE, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Axel Martinelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations GI-CORE, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Kyoko Hayashida

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ KH, NK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Naoko Kawai

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ KH, NK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Megasari Marsela

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ KH, NK and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Chihiro Sugimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Junya Yamagishi, Axel Martinelli, Chihiro Sugimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

kiariegaithuma@gmail.com (AKG); junya@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (JY); sugimoto@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (CS)

Affiliations Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, GI-CORE, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.