About the Authors

Yasuyuki Taira

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Medical and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Nagasaki Prefectural Institute for Environmental Research and Public Health, Omura, Japan

Naomi Hayashida

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medical and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Rimi Tsuchiya

Affiliation Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

Hitoshi Yamaguchi

Affiliations Department of Ecomaterials Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Microbiology, Semey State Medical Academy, Semey, the Republic of Kazakhstan

Jumpei Takahashi

Affiliation Center for International Collaborative Research, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Alexander Kazlovsky

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Gomel State Medical University, Gomel, the Republic of Belarus

Marat Urazalin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Semey State Medical Academy, Semey, the Republic of Kazakhstan

Tolebay Rakhypbekov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Semey State Medical Academy, Semey, the Republic of Kazakhstan

Shunichi Yamashita

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medical Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Noboru Takamura

takamura@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medical and Welfare, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT NT . Performed the experiments: YT HY RT AK MU TR . Analyzed the data: YT NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT JT. Wrote the paper: YT NH SY.