About the Authors

Kousuke Umeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Kousuke Umeda, Sachi Tanaka

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

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

Sachi Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Kousuke Umeda, Sachi Tanaka

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Animal Science, Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University, Minamiminowa, Nagano, Japan

Fumiaki Ihara

Roles Investigation

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

Junya Yamagishi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Yutaka Suzuki

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Yoshifumi Nishikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

nisikawa@obihiro.ac.jp

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.