About the Authors

Torahiko Okubo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Takako Osaki

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

Eriko Nozaki

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Uemura

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Kouhei Sakai

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Mizue Matushita

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Junji Matsuo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Shinji Nakamura

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Imaging Research, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeru Kamiya

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

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

hiroyuki@med.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.