About the Authors

Mohammad Hazzaz Bin Kabir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Sustainable Animal Environment, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Frances Cagayat Recuenco

Roles Data curation

Affiliations National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Biology, De La Salle University, Taft Ave., Manila, Philippines

Nur Khatijah Mohd Zin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Nina Watanabe

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Sustainable Animal Environment, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan

Yasuhiro Fukuda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Sustainable Animal Environment, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan

Hironori Bando

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Sustainable Animal Environment, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

Kenichi Watanabe

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Hiroki Bochimoto

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Xuenan Xuan

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Kentaro Kato

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

kentaro.kato.c7@tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Sustainable Animal Environment, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan, National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare.