Yuka Sasaki¹, Mizuki Yoshioka¹, Yuna Mogi², Yuichi Otsuka¹ (¹Dept. Biochem. Mol. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci. Eng., Saitama Univ., ²Grad. Sch. Front. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo)

Itsuki Taniguchi¹, Keiji Nakamura¹, Yasuhiro Gotoh¹, Kenichi Lee², Tadasuke Ooka³, Yoshitoshi Ogura⁴, Makoto Ohnishi², Sunao Iyoda², Tetsuya Hayashi¹ (¹Dept. Bact., Grad. Sch. Med. Sci., Kyushu Univ., ²Dept. Bact. I, NIID, ³Dept. Microbiol., Grad. Sch. Med. Dent. Sci., Kagoshima Univ., ⁴Div. Microbiol., Dept. Infect. Med., Kurume Univ. Sch. Med.)

Chie Shitada¹, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka², Chiyomi Sakamoto¹, Makoto Kuroda², Motohide Takahashi¹ (¹Kumamoto Health Science Univ. Toxin and Biologicals Research Laboratory, ²Pathogen Genomics Center., NIID)

Yusuke Tsuda¹, Masahiro Suzuki², Jun-ichi Wachino^1,3, Kouji Kimura¹, Yoshichika Arakawa^1,3 (¹Dept. Bacteriol., Grad. Sch. Med., Nagoya Univ., ²Dept. Microbiol., Sch. Med., Fujita Health Univ., ³Dept. Med. Tech., Shubun Univ.)

Yasuhiko Matsumoto¹, Tae Nagamachi¹, Asami Yoshikawa¹, Tsuyoshi Yamada^2,3, Takashi Sugita¹ (¹Dept. Microbiol., Meiji Pharm. Univ., ²Teikyo Univ. Ins. Med. Mycol., ³Asia Int. Ins. Infect. Dis. Contr., Teikyo Univ.)

Jun Kurushima, Haruyoshi Tomita (Dept. Bacteriol., Sch. Med., Gunma Univ.)

Atsushi Yokotani¹, Fumi Takahashi¹, Ryoko Aoyama¹, Go Kamoshida¹, Tadashi Kosaka², Masaki Nakanishi³, Naohisa Fujita⁴ (¹Dept. Microbiol. Infect. Cont. Sci., Kyoto Pharm. Univ., ²Dept. Pharm., Univ. Hosp., Kyoto Pref. Univ. Med., ³Dept. Infect. Cont. Lab. Med. Univ. Hosp., Kyoto Pref. Univ. Med., ⁴Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment)

Ryosuke Fukuda¹, Nozomu Obana^2,3, Nobuhiko Nomura^3,4 (¹Sch. Life Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba, ²TMRC, Fac. Medicine, Univ. Tsukuba, ³MiCS, Univ. Tsukuba, ⁴Fac. Life Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba)