Our response to the letter to the editor

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Cell and Tissue Culture Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS), University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• ² Save the Children, Bangladesh.
• ³ Kobayashi Pediatric Clinic, Shizuoka, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Developmental Medical Sciences, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁵ Infectious Diseases Department, International University of Health & Welfare (IUHW), Chiba, Japan.
• ⁶ Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Japan University of Health Sciences, Saitama, Japan.
• ⁷ Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Microbiology, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
• ⁸ Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹ Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: ushijima-hiroshi@jcom.home.ne.jp.