About the Authors

Yuho Murata

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuho Murata, Tatsuki Sugi

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

Tatsuki Sugi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuho Murata, Tatsuki Sugi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Louis M. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kentaro Kato

kkato@obihiro.ac.jp

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KK TS. Data curation: YM TS LMW KK. Formal analysis: YM TS. Funding acquisition: KK TS. Investigation: YM TS. Methodology: KK YM TS. Project administration: KK. Resources: YM TS KK. Software: YM TS. Supervision: KK. Validation: YM TS. Visualization: YM TS KK. Writing – original draft: YM TS. Writing – review & editing: LMW KK.