About the Authors
- Hajime Kanamori
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hajime Kanamori, Hisakazu Yano
* E-mail: kanamori@med.tohoku.ac.jp (HK); yanohisa@med.tohoku.ac.jp (HY)
Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Hisakazu Yano
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hajime Kanamori, Hisakazu Yano
* E-mail: kanamori@med.tohoku.ac.jp (HK); yanohisa@med.tohoku.ac.jp (HY)
Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology with Epidemiological Research & Management and Analysis of Infectious Diseases (C-MERMAID), Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Yoichi Hirakata
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology with Epidemiological Research & Management and Analysis of Infectious Diseases (C-MERMAID), Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Ayako Hirotani
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Kazuaki Arai
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology with Epidemiological Research & Management and Analysis of Infectious Diseases (C-MERMAID), Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Shiro Endo
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Sadahiro Ichimura
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, BML, Inc., Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- Miho Ogawa
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, BML, Inc., Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- Masahiro Shimojima
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, BML, Inc., Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- Tetsuji Aoyagi
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Masumitsu Hatta
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Mitsuhiro Yamada
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Affiliation Department of Regional Cooperation for Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Yoshiaki Gu
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Affiliation Department of Regional Cooperation for Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Koichi Tokuda
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Hiroyuki Kunishima
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Affiliation Department of Regional Cooperation for Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Miho Kitagawa
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Mitsuo Kaku
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Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that Sadahiro Ichimura, Miho Ogawa, and Masahiro Shimojima belong to Department of Bacteriology, BML, Inc., but the affiliation to this company or this study is not related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: H. Kanamori HY YH M. Kaku. Performed the experiments: H. Kanamori HY AH KA SI MO MS. Analyzed the data: H. Kanamori HY SE TA MH MY YG KT H. Kunishima. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H. Kanamori HY SI MO MS M. Kitagawa. Wrote the paper: H. Kanamori HY.