Ezaki, Ayano
Yano, Hiromu
Pan, Cheng
Fujiwara, Yukio
Anami, Toshiki
Ibe, Yuki
Motoshima, Takanobu
Yatsuda, Junji
Esumi, Shigeyuki
Miura, Yuji
Kamba, Tomomi
Komohara, Yoshihiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-0846
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKENHI (20H03459)
Article History
Received: 12 March 2024
Accepted: 22 July 2024
First Online: 30 July 2024
Declarations
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: Board member is co-author: Yoshihiro Komohara is an Editorial Board member of Microbiology and Immunology and a co-author of this article. To minimize bias, Yoshihiro Komohara was excluded from all editorial decision-making related to the acceptance of this article for publication. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. All authors have no financial competing interests to declare.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kumamoto University (#2059), and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Patient consent for inclusion in this study was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Kumamoto University (#2059, #1169).