About the Authors

Keiji Nakamura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yoshitoshi Ogura

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

Yasuhiro Gotoh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Tetsuya Hayashi

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

thayash@bact.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.