1. Department of Pathophysiology, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University
2. Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
3. Laboratory of Synthetic Medical Chemistry, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University
4. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine
5. Department of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine
6. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine
7. Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata University School of Medicine
8. Department of Clinical Laboratories, Yamagata University Hospital
9. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yamagata Saisei Hospital, Yamagata, Japan
10. Department of Internal Medicine, General Minami Tohoku Hospital
11. Research Division for Development of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Development Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University
12. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
13. Department of Internal Medicine, Fukushima Prefecture Aizu General Hospital
14. Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Fukushima Medical University