About the Authors

Jiro Mitobe

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Makoto Ohnishi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

jmitobe@nih.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Fumiko Nishiumi

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Developmental Medicine, Research Institute, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Izumi, Osaka, Japan

Itaru Yanagihara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Developmental Medicine, Research Institute, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Izumi, Osaka, Japan

Shouji Yamamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Makoto Ohnishi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Ohnishi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Makoto Ohnishi

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.