Bei, Chengli https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6816-4787
Fu, Manjiao
Zhang, Yao
Xie, Hebin
Yin, Ke
Liu, Yanke
Zhang, Li
Xie, Bangruan
Li, Fang
Huang, Hua
Liu, Yuhong
Yang, Li
Zhou, Jing
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Major and Technological Special Project for infectious disease during the Twelfth Five-year Plan Period (2013ZX10005004)
China Tuberculosis Clinical Trial Consortium(CTCTC) research funding (2017KYJJ008)
Article History
Received: 11 January 2018
Accepted: 28 May 2018
First Online: 7 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of responsible units (Changsha Central Hospital) and we had received ethics committee approval for verbal consent. We obtained verbal informed consent from all subjects on the phone, if the patient died when we tracked, the verbal consent was received from the legal representative or next of kin of the deceased patients.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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