About the Authors

Shintaro Kobayashi

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

shin-kobayashi@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Kentaro Yoshii

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Wallaya Phongphaew

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Memi Muto

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Minato Hirano

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Yasuko Orba

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Hirofumi Sawa

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Virus Network, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hiroaki Kariwa

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.