About the Authors

Olamide K. Oloniniyi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, 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

Uche S. Unigwe

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Ebonyi, Nigeria, Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Sayaka Okada

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Mayuko Kimura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Shota Koyano

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Yukiko Miyazaki

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, 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

Michael O. Iroezindu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Nnenna A. Ajayi

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Chinedu M. Chukwubike

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Nneka M. Chika-Igwenyi

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Anne C. Ndu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Damian U. Nwidi

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

Haruka Abe

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Shuzo Urata

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases (CCPID), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Yohei Kurosaki

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ykuro@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (YK); j-yasuda@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (JY))

Affiliation Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Jiro Yasuda

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ykuro@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (YK); j-yasuda@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (JY))

Affiliations Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, 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, National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases (CCPID), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.