About the Authors

Kentaro Oyama

Affiliations Department of Oral Microbiology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan, Department of Oral maxillofacial Surgery, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Miki Kawada-Matsuo

Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Yuichi Oogai

Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Tetsuya Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Norifumi Nakamura

Affiliation Department of Oral maxillofacial Surgery, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Hitoshi Komatsuzawa

hkomatsu@dent.kagoshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HK MM KO. Data curation: MM YO KO. Formal analysis: MM KO. Funding acquisition: HK. Investigation: MM YO KO. Methodology: HK MM KO. Project administration: HK KO NN. Resources: HK TH. Software: YO KO. Supervision: NN TH HK. Validation: HK NN MM TH. Visualization: KO MM NN HK. Writing – original draft: KO MM HK. Writing – review & editing: KO NN HK.