About the Authors

Hiroaki Inaba

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

hinaba@okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Ryota Nomura

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Yukio Kato

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health II, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroki Takeuchi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Atsuo Amano

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Fumitoshi Asai

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiko Nakano

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan

Richard J. Lamont

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Michiyo Matsumoto-Nakano

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.