About the Authors

Ferdinand D. Guzman

Contributed equally to this work with: Ferdinand D. Guzman, Yuta Iwamoto

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

Affiliation San Lazaro Hospital, Manila, Philippines

Yuta Iwamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Ferdinand D. Guzman, Yuta Iwamoto

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

Affiliation School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Nobuo Saito

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nobuosaito@oita-u.ac.jp

Affiliations School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan

Eumelia P. Salva

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation San Lazaro Hospital, Manila, Philippines

Efren M. Dimaano

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation San Lazaro Hospital, Manila, Philippines

Akira Nishizono

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan

Motoi Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Oladeji Oloko

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Koya Ariyoshi

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

Affiliations School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Chris Smith

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Christopher M. Parry

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Rontgene M. Solante

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation San Lazaro Hospital, Manila, Philippines

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.