About the Authors
- Masahiro Ishikane
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Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Field Epidemiology Training Program Japan, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Global Infectious Diseases of Infection and Epidemiology, Medical Sciences Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan
- Koji Watanabe
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Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
- Kunihisa Tsukada
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Affiliation AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yuichi Nozaki
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Mikio Yanase
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Toru Igari
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Affiliation Pathology Division of Clinical Laboratory, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Naohiko Masaki
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Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshimi Kikuchi
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Affiliation AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Shinichi Oka
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Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
- Hiroyuki Gatanaga
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* E-mail: higatana@acc.ncgm.go.jp
Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MI KW TK YK SO HG. Performed the experiments: MI KW TK YN MY TI NM. Analyzed the data: MI KW TK HG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI KW TK YN MY TI NM YK SO HG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MI KW KT HG.