About the Authors

Tsai-Wen Wan

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Genomics, and Evolution, International Medical Education and Research Center, Niigata, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Olga E. Khokhlova

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga E. Khokhlova, Yasuhisa Iwao

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Genomics, and Evolution, International Medical Education and Research Center, Niigata, Japan, Russia-Japan Center of Microbiology, Metagenomics and Infectious Diseases, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Department of Microbiology, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Yasuhisa Iwao

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga E. Khokhlova, Yasuhisa Iwao

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Genomics, and Evolution, International Medical Education and Research Center, Niigata, Japan, Russia-Japan Center of Microbiology, Metagenomics and Infectious Diseases, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Wataru Higuchi

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, Department of Infectious Disease Control and International Medicine, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Wei-Chun Hung

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ivan V. Reva

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Genomics, and Evolution, International Medical Education and Research Center, Niigata, Japan, Department of Clinical and Fundamental Medicine, Far Eastern Federal University School of Biomedicine, Vladivostok, Russia

Olga A. Singur

Affiliation Department of Venereal and Skin Diseases and Cosmetology, Pacific State Medical University, Vladivostok, Russia

Vladimir V. Gostev

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Molecular Epidemiology, Scientific Research Institute of Children’s Infections, St. Petersburg, Russia

Sergey V. Sidorenko

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Molecular Epidemiology, Scientific Research Institute of Children’s Infections, St. Petersburg, Russia

Olga V. Peryanova

Affiliations Russia-Japan Center of Microbiology, Metagenomics and Infectious Diseases, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Department of Microbiology, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Alla B. Salmina

Affiliation Research Institute of Molecular Medicine and Pathobiochemistry, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Galina V. Reva

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Fundamental Medicine, Far Eastern Federal University School of Biomedicine, Vladivostok, Russia

Lee-Jene Teng

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Tatsuo Yamamoto

tatsuoy@imerc.jp

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Genomics, and Evolution, International Medical Education and Research Center, Niigata, Japan, Russia-Japan Center of Microbiology, Metagenomics and Infectious Diseases, Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V.F. Vojno-Yasenetsky, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Department of Clinical and Fundamental Medicine, Far Eastern Federal University School of Biomedicine, Vladivostok, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TY TWW OEK YI LJT GVR ABS. Performed the experiments: TWW OEK YI TY WH WCH IVR OAS VVG SVS OVP. Analyzed the data: TWW YI OEK TY WH WCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TWW YI OEK LJT TY. Wrote the paper: TY TWW YI OEK.