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Authors
Tsuneki-Tokunaga, Akeno
Kondo, Takanori
Kanai, Kyosuke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7984-207X
Itagaki, Asao
Tsuchie, Hideaki
Okada, Takayoshi
Kasagi, Masaaki
Tanaka, Kiyoshi
Hinay, Alfredo Jr. A.
Kageyama, Seiji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-6137
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K19228, 18K17353)
Tottori University (A Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Infection Control, Prevention by the International Platform for Dryland Research, Education, Tottori University)
Tottori Prefecture (a Grant-in-Aid for Environmental Health Research)
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Article History
Received: 15 August 2021
Accepted: 27 September 2021
First Online: 11 November 2021
Declarations
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: The authors report no conflict of interest.
: The present study was conducted with the approval and under the control of the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan (no. 1981). All procedures involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Sample collection was conducted after obtaining informed consent from patients in collaborating medical facilities consisting of a hospital and three clinics. Samples were then shipped to the laboratory without patient identification.
