About the Authors

M. Shamim Hasan Zahid

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Sharda Prasad Awasthi

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Masahiro Asakura

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Shruti Chatterjee

Current address: CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Atsushi Hinenoya

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Shah M. Faruque

Affiliation Centre for Food and Water Borne Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shinji Yamasaki

shinji@vet.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSHZ SPA SMF SY. Performed the experiments: MSHZ SPA MA SC AH. Analyzed the data: MSHZ SPA AH SMF SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSHZ SPA MA AH. Wrote the paper: MSHZ SMF SY.