Banno, Hirotsugu
Kimura, Kouji
Seki, Tomomi
Jin, Wanchun
Wachino, Jun-ichi
Yamada, Keiko
Nagano, Noriyuki
Arakawa, Yoshichika
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (the Emerging/Re-emerging Infectious Disease Project)
Article History
Received: 21 March 2018
Accepted: 9 May 2018
First Online: 17 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.As this study pertains to the characterization of bacterial isolates only, and as we did not obtain or use clinical or personal information, this type of study does not require examination or approval of an ethical committee according to the related guidelines of the Japanese government.
: Informed consent is not applicable, as this article does not contain any studies with human participants.