Kawatsu, Lisa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2666-844X
Ohkado, Akihiro
Uchimura, Kazuhiro
Izumi, Kiyohiko
Article History
Received: 1 August 2018
Accepted: 27 November 2018
First Online: 7 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association reference number RIT/IRB 29–25). Informed consent was deemed not necessary by the above mentioned Review Board as the surveillance data does not contain personal identifiers.
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