ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful to Dr. Hideyuki Takahashi, Dr. Tomio Ibayashi, and Dr.
Yasuyuki Mori for valuable advice and discussions. This work was
supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science, by Research Project for Improving
Animal Disease Prevention Technologies to Combat Antimicrobial
Resistance 2017–2021 FY of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries of Japan, and by grants from the Project of the NARO,
Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution (Research
Program on Development of Innovative Technology 26058 BC [to S.K.]
and Special Scheme Project on Regional Developing Strategy, Grant
16817557 [to S.K.]). The funders had no role in study design, data
collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the
manuscript. We thank Enago (www.enago.jp) for the English language
review.