○Aleksandr Vladimirovich Ilinov^1,2, Amina Kaboso Shaban¹, Mariko Hakamata¹, Akihito Nishiyama¹, Yuriko Ozeki¹, Yukari Fukusima³, Chie Nakajima³, Yoshitaka Tateishi¹, Yasuhiko Suzuki³, Sohkichi Matsumoto¹ (¹Dept. Bacteriol., Sch. Med. Niigata Univ., ²Dept. General Surgery, Krasnoyarsk Med. Univ., ³Division Bioresources, Hokkaido Univ. Research Center for Zoonosis Control)

○Hiroyuki Yamada¹, Kinuyo Chikamatsu¹, Akio Aono¹, Kazuyoshi Murata², Naoyuki Miyazaki³, Yoko Kayama^2,5, Nagatoshi Fujiwara⁴, Shinji Maeda⁵, Satoshi Mitarai¹ (¹Dept. Mycobac. Ref. Res., RIT, JATA., ²NIPS, ³Univ. Tsukuba, ⁴Tezukayama Univ., ⁵Hokkaido Univ. Science)

○Hiroyuki Taira¹, Minoru Yaga², Tetsu Yamashiro³ (¹Dept. Orthop., Sch. Med., Univ. Ryukyus, ²Dept. Mech. Sys. Engr., Fuc. Engr., Univ. Ryukyus, ³Dept. Bacteriol., Sch. Med., Univ. Ryukyus)

○Yu Shimoyama¹, Yuko Ohara-Nemoto², Takayuki K Nemoto², Taichi Ishikawa¹, Daisuke Sasaki³, Yoshitoyo Kodama¹, Shigenobu Kimura⁴, Minoru Sasaki¹ (¹Dept. Microbiol., Div. Mol. Microbiol., Iwate Med. Univ., ²Dept. Oral Mol. Biol., Course Med. Dent. Sci., Nagasaki Univ. Grad. Sch.Biomed. Sci., ³Dept. Conservative Dent., Div. Periodontol., Iwate Med. Univ., ⁴Dept. Oral Hygiene, Kansai Women’s College)