About the Authors

Tetsuya Kakita

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

kakitatt@pref.okinawa.lg.jp (TK); claudia@cs.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (CT)

Affiliations Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,, Research Center for Infectious Disease, Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment

Claudia Toma

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

kakitatt@pref.okinawa.lg.jp (TK); claudia@cs.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (CT)

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

Isabel Sebastián

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

Hunter Barbee

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

Tetsu Yamashiro

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

Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.