About the Authors

Kenji Ota

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Katsunori Yanagihara

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

k-yanagi@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Daisuke Sasaki

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Norihito Kaku

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Naoki Uno

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Kei Sakamoto

Roles Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Kosuke Kosai

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Taiga Miyazaki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiroo Hasegawa

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Ayumi Fujita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infection Control and Education Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Masato Tashiro

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infection Control and Education Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Takeshi Tanaka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infection Control and Education Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Koichi Izumikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Infection Control and Education Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Koya Ariyoshi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiroshi Mukae

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Jiro Yasuda

Roles Supervision

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

Kouichi Morita

Roles Supervision

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

Shigeru Kohno

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.