About the Authors

Masashi Yasuda

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan

Syouya Nagata

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan

Satoshi Yamane

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan

Chinami Kunikata

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan

Yutaka Kida

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

Koichi Kuwano

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

Chigusa Suezawa

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan

Jun Okuda

okuda@chs.pref.kagawa.jp

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Kagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JO. Funding acquisition: JO. Investigation: MY SY CK SN CS JO. Methodology: MY JO. Project administration: JO. Resources: YK KK. Validation: MY. Writing – original draft: MY JO.