About the Authors

Akira Fukuda

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

Affiliation Food Microbiology and Food Safety Unit, Division of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

Masato Suzuki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Kohei Makita

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Epidemiology Unit, Division of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

Masaru Usui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

usuima@rakuno.ac.jp

Affiliation Food Microbiology and Food Safety Unit, Division of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.