About the Authors
- Kazufumi Obata
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Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Takashi Kojima
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* E-mail: ktakashi@sapmed.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Cell Science, Research Institute of Frontier Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Tomoyuki Masaki
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Tamaki Okabayashi
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Affiliation Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
- Shinichi Yokota
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Satoshi Hirakawa
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Kazuaki Nomura
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Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Akira Takasawa
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Masaki Murata
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Satoshi Tanaka
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Jun Fuchimoto
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Nobuhiro Fujii
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Hiroyuki Tsutsumi
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Tetsuo Himi
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Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
- Norimasa Sawada
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KO TK NF TH HT NS. Performed the experiments: KO TK SH KN JF. Analyzed the data: KO AT MM ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM TO SY. Wrote the paper: KO.