1. Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
2. Microbiology and Oral Infection, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
3. Discovery Research Laboratory, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan
4. Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
5. Department of Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
6. Department of Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu City, Japan
7. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA