About the Authors

Shintaro Seto

s-seto@hama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Kunio Tsujimura

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Toshinobu Horii

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Yukio Koide

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS KT YK. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH YK. Wrote the manuscript: SS KT.