About the Authors

Jun Kurushima

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Infection, Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Asaomi Kuwae

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Infection, Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Akio Abe

abe@lisci.kitasato-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Infection, Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK AA. Performed the experiments: JK AK. Analyzed the data: JK AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK AK. Wrote the paper: JK AA.