Association between prenatal exposure to maternal metal and trace elements and Streptococcus infection: A prospective birth cohort in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study

• Hiroyoshi Iwata ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hiroyoshi-Iwata@cehs.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6949-0795

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• Atsuko Ikeda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3065-262X

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• Mariko Itoh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Rahel Mesfin Ketema,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Naomi Tamura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2116-4023

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• Takeshi Yamaguchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6329-0437

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• Keiko Yamazaki,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2027-8758

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• Rieko Yamamoto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Maki Tojo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yu Ait Bamai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yasuaki Saijo,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-8202

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• Yoshiya Ito,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, Japanese Red Cross Hokkaido College of Nursing, Kitami, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-6661

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• Reiko Kishi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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• the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group

  Affiliation Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

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