About the Authors

Takayasu Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

atakawat@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Food-borne Pathogenic Microbiology, Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masaki Shibasaki

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Implantology and Regenerative Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Fumito Maruyama

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Tsutomu Sekizaki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Food-borne Pathogenic Microbiology, Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ichiro Nakagawa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.