About the Authors

Yoko Matsumura

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

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan, Department of Health and Nutrition, Faculty of Health Science, Kio University, Kitakatsuragi-gun, Nara, Japan

Masahiro Kitabatake

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Noriko Ouji-Sageshima

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Satsuki Yasui

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Naoko Mochida

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Health and Nutrition, Faculty of Health Science, Kio University, Kitakatsuragi-gun, Nara, Japan

Ryuichi Nakano

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Kei Kasahara

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Koichi Tomoda

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Hisakazu Yano

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Shin-ichi Kayano

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health and Nutrition, Faculty of Health Science, Kio University, Kitakatsuragi-gun, Nara, Japan

Toshihiro Ito

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

toshi-ito@naramed-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.