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This research was supported by AMED under Grant Number JP19lm0203008.

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Conceptualization, Jun Nishikawa and Masashi Yanagihara; methodology, Tatsuya Takagi, Soichiro Fukuda, Naoto Kubota, Masashi Yanagihara, Yuki Kobayashi, Ken-ichiro Otsuyama, Junzo Nojima, Hidehiro Tsuneoka, Kohei Sakai, Kenji Sakurai, and Kazuki Itatani; supervision, Yutaka Suehiro, Takahiro Yamasaki, and Isao Sakaida; final approval of manuscript, all authors.

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Takagi, T., Nishikawa, J., Yanagihara, M. et al. Microbicidal effect of deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode irradiation. Lasers Med Sci 36, 927–931 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-020-03143-7

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