About the Authors

Izumi Yamatani

Contributed equally to this work with: Izumi Yamatani, Kosaku Komiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Kosaku Komiya

Contributed equally to this work with: Izumi Yamatani, Kosaku Komiya

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

komiyakh1@oita-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Hisayuki Shuto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Marimu Yamanaka

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Mari Yamasue

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Hiroki Yoshikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Kazufumi Hiramatsu

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Jun-ichi Kadota

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.