About the Authors

So Shinya

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

abzeoz@gmail.com (SS); nkoizumi@niid.go.jp (NK)

Affiliation Yuinoshima Animal Clinic, Amami-City, Kagoshima, Japan

Yukinori Muraoka

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Shintoshin Animal Clinic, Saitama-City, Saitama, Japan

Daigo Negishi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yuinoshima Animal Clinic, Amami-City, Kagoshima, Japan

Nobuo Koizumi

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

abzeoz@gmail.com (SS); nkoizumi@niid.go.jp (NK)

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.