About the Authors
- Shin Wakimoto
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
- Haruyuki Nakayama-Imaohji
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
- Minoru Ichimura
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Affiliations Department of Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
- Hidetoshi Morita
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Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan
- Hideki Hirakawa
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Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Chiba, Japan
- Tetsuya Hayashi
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Affiliation Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
- Koji Yasutomo
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
- Tomomi Kuwahara
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* E-mail: tomomi@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SW HNI TH KY TK. Performed the experiments: SW HNI MI TK. Analyzed the data: SW HNI HH TH TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH HM. Wrote the paper: SW TK.