About the Authors

Sotaro Ozaka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Akira Sonoda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Shimpei Ariki

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Mizuki Minata

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Naganori Kamiyama

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Shinya Hidano

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Nozomi Sachi

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Kanako Ito

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Yoko Kudo

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Astri Dewayani

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Thanyakorn Chalalai

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Takashi Ozaki

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Yasuhiro Soga

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Chiaki Fukuda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Kazuhiro Mizukami

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Shiori Ishizawa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Tsumura Advanced Technology Research Laboratories, Tsumura & Co., Ibaraki, Japan

Mitsue Nishiyama

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Tsumura Advanced Technology Research Laboratories, Tsumura & Co., Ibaraki, Japan

Naoki Fujitsuka

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Tsumura Kampo Research Laboratories, Tsumura & Co., Ibaraki, Japan

Sachiko Mogami

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Tsumura Kampo Research Laboratories, Tsumura & Co., Ibaraki, Japan

Kunitsugu Kubota

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Tsumura Kampo Research Laboratories, Tsumura & Co., Ibaraki, Japan

Kazunari Murakami

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Takashi Kobayashi

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

takashik@oita-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: [This study received funding from Tsumura & Co. (to K.M.)] This study received funding from Tsumura & Co. This does not alter adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.