Terahara, Fumitaka
Nishiura, Hiroshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0941-8537
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP18fk0108050)
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JPMJCR1413)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16KT0130 and 17H04701)
Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (NA)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2018
Accepted: 11 April 2019
First Online: 23 April 2019
Authors’ information
: The authors are experts with interest in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and also in Theoretical Epidemiology, and the corresponding author acts as the chairperson and team leader of the Department of Hygiene, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine.
: The present study analyzed data that is publicly available. As such, the datasets used in our study were de-identified and fully anonymized in advance, and the analysis of publicly available data without identity information does not require ethical approval [CitationRef removed].
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