About the Authors

Yuuki Bamba

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Hiroshi Moro

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

hmoro@med.niigata-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Nobumasa Aoki

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Takeshi Koizumi

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Yasuyoshi Ohshima

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Satoshi Watanabe

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Takuro Sakagami

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Toshiyuki Koya

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Toshinori Takada

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Toshiaki Kikuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.