Inokuchi, Miho
Dumre, Shyam Prakash http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4072-0745
Mizukami, Shusaku http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-4884
Tun, Mya Myat Ngwe
Kamel, Mohamed Gomaa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9848-2965
Manh, Dao Huy http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3874-5051
Phuc, Le Hong
Van Thuong, Nguyen
Van An, Tran
Weiss, Lan Nguyen
Turk, Tarek
Dang, Tran Ngoc
Huong, Vu Thi Que
Morita, Kouichi
Huy, Nguyen Tien http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9543-9440
Hirayama, Kenji http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9467-1777
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (16fm0108001h0002)
Article History
Received: 1 February 2018
Accepted: 5 April 2018
First Online: 4 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (No. 602/ QD-Pas 27/12/10) and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan (No. 11063072). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the IRBs and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All of the participants were duly informed about the study, and written informed consent was obtained from the study participants or their guardians/parents (in the case of minors) prior to their enrolment in the study.