About the Authors

Kentaro Kato

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

katoken@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (KK); htachiba@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (HT)

Affiliation Department of Eco-epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Takashi Makiuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

Xunjia Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Hiroshi Tachibana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

katoken@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (KK); htachiba@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (HT)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.