About the Authors

Hisaya K. Ono

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Department of Zoonoses, Kitasato University School of Veterinary Medicine, Towada, Aomori, Japan

Shouhei Hirose

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Department of Biopolymer and Health Science, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Kouji Narita

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Institute for Animal Experimentation, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Makoto Sugiyama

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Veterinary Medicine, Towada, Japan

Krisana Asano

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Department of Biopolymer and Health Science, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Dong-Liang Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoonoses, Kitasato University School of Veterinary Medicine, Towada, Aomori, Japan

Akio Nakane

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a27k03n0@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Department of Biopolymer and Health Science, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.