About the Authors

Munehisa Fukusumi

Affiliations Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Arashiro

Affiliations Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Yuzo Arima

arima@niid.go.jp

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Tamano Matsui

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoe Shimada

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Hitomi Kinoshita

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Ashley Arashiro

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiko Takasaki

Affiliations Department of Virology 1st, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chigasaki, Japan

Tomimasa Sunagawa

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Kazunori Oishi

Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YA MF TM. Data curation: MF TA AA. Formal analysis: MF TA AA. Funding acquisition: TM TT. Methodology: YA MF TM TSh. Project administration: TM. Resources: TSu TT. Supervision: KO TM. Validation: YA MF. Visualization: AA. Writing - original draft: MF YA TA. Writing - review & editing: AA TA KO HK.