George, Christine Marie
Rashid, Mahamud
Almeida, Mathieu
Saif-Ur-Rahman, K. M.
Monira, Shirajum
Bhuyian, Md. Sazzadul Islam
Hasan, Khaled
Mahmud, Toslim T.
Li, Shan
Brubaker, Jessica
Perin, Jamie
Rahman, Zillur
Mustafiz, Munshi
Sack, David A.
Sack, R. Bradley
Alam, Munirul
Stine, O. Colin
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1K01AI110526-01A1)
Article History
Received: 21 April 2017
Accepted: 1 November 2017
First Online: 25 November 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All study procedures were approved by the research Ethical Review Committee of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and IRB of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All study participants (household contacts and cholera index patients) provided written informed consent; consent comprised adult participants (>18 years of age) signing an written informed consent and/or parental consent form and children 12–17 years of age signing an written assent form. If a study participant could not read, the consent form was read to him or her, and the participant then was asked to document his or her consent with an X in the presence of a witness.
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