About the Authors

Nobuo Okahashi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

okahashi@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Center for Frontier Oral Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Masanobu Nakata

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yujiro Hirose

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hirobumi Morisaki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology and Immunology, School of Dentistry, Showa University, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Hideo Kataoka

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology, Asahi University School of Dentistry, Mizuho, Gifu, Japan

Hirotaka Kuwata

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology and Immunology, School of Dentistry, Showa University, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Shigetada Kawabata

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Molecular Microbiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.