Hiroshi Nakao¹, Akiko Uehara¹, Toshiaki Nakada², Tominobu Takara², Daiki Kinjo¹ (¹Lab. Molec. Genetics, Sch. Health Sci., Univ. Ryukyus, ²Lifestyle Related Dis. Med. Ctr., Naha City Med. Assoc.)

Mitsuyo Kawaguchiya¹, Noriko Urushibara¹, Meiji Soe Aung¹, Kenji Kudo², Masahiko Ito², Nobumichi Kobayashi¹ (¹Dept. Hygiene, Sapporo Med. Univ., Sch. Med., ²Sapporo Clinical Laboratory, Inc.)

Yumiko Okada¹, Hirokazu Ogihara², Yuichi Kodama³, Junichiro Nishi^3,4, Naoko Imuta⁴, Stephen Forsythe⁵ (¹Div. Biomedical Food Res., Nat. Inst. Health Sci., ²Col. Bioresource Sci. Nihon Univ., ³Kagoshima Univ. Hosp., ⁴Sch. Med and Dent., Kagoshima Univ., ⁵foodmicrobe.com)

Miyo Murai, Kozue Kishii (Div. Lab. Sci., Dept. Health Sci., Saitama Pref. Univ.)

Meiji Soe Aung¹, Noriko Urushibara¹, Mitsuyo Kawaguchiya¹, Masahiko Ito², Satoshi Habadera², Mina Hirose³, Nobumichi Kobayashi¹ (¹Dept. Hygiene, Sapporo Med. Univ., ²Sapporo Clin. Lab. Inc., ³Dept. Pediatr. Dentistry, Health Sci. Univ. Hokkaido)

Chie Monma¹, Wakaba Okada¹, Satoru Akase¹, Keiko Yokoyama¹, Kenji Sadamasu¹, Yoichi Kamata² (¹Dept. Microbiol.,Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. P.H., ²Senri Kinran Univ.)

Yusuke Hashimoto¹, Masato Suzuki², Takahiro Nomura¹, Jun Kurushima¹, Hidetada Hirakawa¹, Koichi Tanimoto³, Haruyoshi Tomita^1,3 (¹Dept. Bacteriol., Grad. Sch. Med., Gunma Univ., ²Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, ³Lab. Bacteriol. Drug Resist., Grad. Sch. Med., Gunma Univ.)