Akashi, Yusaku http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9789-8301
Horie, Michiko
Kiyotaki, Junichi
Takeuchi, Yuto
Togashi, Kenichi
Adachi, Yuki
Ueda, Atsuo
Notake, Shigeyuki
Nakamura, Koji
Terada, Norihiko
Kurihara, Yoko
Kiyasu, Yoshihiko
Suzuki, Hiromichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Roche Diagnostics K.K.
Article History
Accepted: 1 March 2022
First Online: 7 April 2022
Declarations
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: This study was financially supported by Roche Diagnostics K.K.
: Roche Diagnostics K.K., provided support in the form of salaries to author Michiko Horie, Kenichi Togashi, and Yuki Adachi. Molecular examinations using Liat, cobas, NIID, and Xpert Xpress were performed with financial support from Roche Diagnostics K.K. H iromichi Suzuki was awarded lecture fee from Roche Diagnostics K.K.
: The study was performed in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and with the STROBE guidelines and was approved by the ethics committee of the Uni versity of Tsukuba (approval number: R03 41).
: Verbal informed consent was obtained from all participants.
: Not applicable.
: The dataset is appended as a supplementary file (Supplementary file 2)
: All code used for the analysis is provided as a supplementary file (Supplementary file 1)
: All authors meet the authorship criteria set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Yusaku Akashi was the principal investigator, wrote the first draft of the manuscript, and performed the statistical analyses. Michiko Horie, Kenichi To gashi, and Hiromichi Suzuki designed this study. Yuki Adachi and Junichi Kiyotaki performed the molecular testing. Shigeyuki Notake, Atsuo Ueda, and Koji Nakamura collected the samples and performed the diagnostic testing. Hiromichi Suzuki supervised the project. All authors contributed to writing the final draft of the manuscript.
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