About the Authors

Mamoru Niikura

Contributed equally to this work with: Mamoru Niikura, Fumie Kobayashi

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shin–Ichi Inoue

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shoichiro Mineo

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroko Asahi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Fumie Kobayashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mamoru Niikura, Fumie Kobayashi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fumfum@ks.kyorin-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.