About the Authors
- Hirotaka Hiyoshi
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Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Ryu Okada
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Shigeaki Matsuda
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Kazuyoshi Gotoh
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Current address: Department of Bacteriology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Okayama, Japan
Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Yukihiro Akeda
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Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Tetsuya Iida
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Toshio Kodama
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* E-mail: kodama@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Microbe Repository Unit, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HH TI TK. Performed the experiments: HH RO KG TK. Analyzed the data: HH RO KG SM YA TK. Wrote the paper: HH TI TK.