Balikagala, Betty
Sakurai-Yatsushiro, Miki
Tachibana, Shin-Ichiro
Ikeda, Mie
Yamauchi, Masato
Katuro, Osbert T.
Ntege, Edward H.
Sekihara, Makoto
Fukuda, Naoyuki
Takahashi, Nobuyuki
Yatsushiro, Shouki
Mori, Toshiyuki
Hirai, Makoto
Opio, Walter
Obwoya, Paul S.
Anywar, Denis A.
Auma, Mary A.
Palacpac, Nirianne M. Q.
Tsuboi, Takafumi
Odongo-Aginya, Emmanuel I.
Kimura, Eisaku
Ogwang, Martin
Horii, Toshihiro
Mita, Toshihiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8180-2344
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26460515, 26305015, 17H04074)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H26-Iryokiki-Ippan-004)
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP15km0908001)
Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (G2015-210, G2013-105)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (16jm0410004j0005)
Juntendo University (PRO 2019-21)
Article History
Received: 21 November 2019
Accepted: 9 February 2020
First Online: 18 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from Lacor Hospital Institutional Research and Ethics Committee (Ref; LHIREC 021/09/13), the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (Ref; HS 1395), and Juntendo Research and Ethics Committee (Ref; 14-169).
: Prior to participation, all study subjects consented to the publication of study results in medical literature in an anonymized manner.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.