About the Authors

Sonoko Matsumoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonoko Matsumoto, Takashi Shimizu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Takashi Shimizu

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonoko Matsumoto, Takashi Shimizu

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

shimizut@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

Affiliation One Welfare Education and Research Center, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Akihiko Uda

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Kenta Watanabe

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Masahisa Watarai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.