About the Authors

Kanako Komaki-Yasuda

komaki@ri.ncgm.go.jp

Affiliation Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuru Okuwaki

Affiliation Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Kyosuke Nagata

Affiliation Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Shin-ichiro Kawazu

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

Shigeyuki Kano

Affiliation Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKY MO KN SIK SK. Performed the experiments: KKY. Analyzed the data: KKY MO KN SIK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KKY MO KN SIK SK. Wrote the paper: KKY SK.