About the Authors

Taichi Narita

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

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Niigata University, Chuo-ku, Niigata City, Japan

Hansani Madushika Abeywickrama

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

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Niigata University, Chuo-ku, Niigata City, Japan

Marcello Otake Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu-machi, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi, Japan

Kozo Watanabe

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

Affiliation Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

Reiko Arai

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Niigata Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Nishi-ku, Niigata City, Japan

Tsutomu Tamura

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Niigata Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Nishi-ku, Niigata City, Japan

Megumi Sato

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

satomeg@clg.niigata-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Health Sciences, Niigata University, Chuo-ku, Niigata City, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.