About the Authors

Kunio Yanagisawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Kunio Yanagisawa, Nuanjun Wichukchinda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Japan, Infection Control and Prevention Center, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Japan

Nuanjun Wichukchinda

Contributed equally to this work with: Kunio Yanagisawa, Nuanjun Wichukchinda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Naho Tsuchiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Michio Yasunami

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Saga-Ken Medical Centre Koseikan, Saga, Japan

Archawin Rojanawiwat

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Hidenori Tanaka

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation HLA Foundation Laboratory, Kyoto, Japan

Hiroh Saji

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation HLA Foundation Laboratory, Kyoto, Japan

Yoshiyuki Ogawa

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Japan

Hiroshi Handa

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Japan

Panita Pathipvanich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Day Care Centre, Lampang Hospital, Lampang, Thailand

Koya Ariyoshi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kari@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Pathom Sawanpanyalert

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Current address: Ministry of Science & Technology, Higher Education, Science, Research & Innovation

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.