About the Authors

Yosuke Nagasawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yosuke Nagasawa, Masami Takei

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

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Masami Takei

Contributed equally to this work with: Yosuke Nagasawa, Masami Takei

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

takei.masami@nihon-u.ac.jp (MT); kitamura.noboru@nihon-u.ac.jp (NK)

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuhiro Iwata

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuko Nagatsuka

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Tsuzuki

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kenichi Imai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan

Ken-Ichi Imadome

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine for Infections, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeyoshi Fujiwara

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

Noboru Kitamura

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

takei.masami@nihon-u.ac.jp (MT); kitamura.noboru@nihon-u.ac.jp (NK)

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.