Wang, Yi
Li, Chengyuan
Mao, Yuanchun
Liu, Yaobao
Mao, Yanmin
Shao, Jie
Chen, Jianfeng
Yang, Kun
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of Jiangsu Province, China (BZ2020003, BZ2020003, BZ2020003, BZ2020003, BZ2020003, BZ2020003, BZ2020003, BZ2020003)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82173586)
Article History
Received: 24 May 2024
Accepted: 2 September 2024
First Online: 13 September 2024
Declarations
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: No physical samples were collected as part of this study and no personal identifiable information was used in this analysis. The written consent was signed by all participants before the survey beginning. Informed consent obtained from all participants. The research team informed prospective participants of the purpose of the study and the rights of individuals to withdraw from the study at their convenience. Participants of the study indicated their consent by clicking on the agreement box in the frontage. The survey was administrated by trained investigators, who worked in the township health centres and received specialist training and were assisted by staff from the local CDC. If participant was younger than age of 16, the investigators would ask consent from their parents or legal guardians. All records of participants were anonymized before its use. The study was approved by the Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases ethics Committee (Decision No. JIPD-2022-009) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
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