About the Authors

Asuka Minematsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Taiga Miyazaki

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

taiga-m@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Shintaro Shimamura

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiroshi Nishikawa

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Current address: Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medical Innovations, New Drug Research Division, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Tokushima, Japan

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Hironobu Nakayama

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Suzuka University of Medical Sciences, Mie, Japan

Takahiro Takazono

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Tomomi Saijo

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Kazuko Yamamoto

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Yoshifumi Imamura

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Katsunori Yanagihara

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Shigeru Kohno

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiroshi Mukae

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Koichi Izumikawa

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.