About the Authors

Motoi Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiroyuki Yoshimine

Affiliation Inoue Hospital, Shunkaikai, Nagasaki, Japan

Yoshitaka Harada

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Inoue Hospital, Shunkaikai, Nagasaki, Japan

Naho Tsuchiya

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Ikumi Shimada

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Koya Ariyoshi

kari@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Kenichiro Inoue

Affiliation Inoue Hospital, Shunkaikai, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS HY KA. Performed the experiments: MS HY YH NT IS KI. Analyzed the data: MS NT KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS HY YH NT IS KI. Wrote the paper: MS KA.