Post, Annelies http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0471-8250
Kaboré, Berenger http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-7033
Reuling, Isaie J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1783-0735
Bognini, Joel
van der Heijden, Wouter
Diallo, Salou
Lompo, Palpouguini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7547-2892
Kam, Basile
Herssens, Natacha
Lanke, Kjerstin
Bousema, Teun
Sauerwein, Robert W. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3163-7202
Tinto, Halidou http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-7041
Jacobs, Jan
de Mast, Quirijn http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6056-157X
van der Ven, Andre J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1833-3391
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sysmex corporation Japan (Not applicable, Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2019
Accepted: 29 April 2019
First Online: 31 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The studies were performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and GCLP guidelines. The CHMI study was approved by the central committee for research involving human subjects of the Netherlands (NL56659.091.16), and the Western Institutional Review Board (WIRB) in the USA. The diagnostic study was approved by the national ethical committee of Burkina Faso (ref 2015-01-006), the internal review board of IRSS (ref A03-2016/CEIRES), the ethical committee of the university hospital of Antwerp (ref 15/47/492), and the institutional review board of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ref 1029/15).
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: AvV and QdM have a non-restricted research grant from SYSMEX, which funded the current study. None of the other authors had any competing interest.
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