Suzuki, Keita
Huits, Ralph
Phadungsombat, Juthamas
Tuekprakhon, Aekkachai
Nakayama, Emi E.
van den Berg, Riemsdijk
Barbé, Barbara
Cnops, Lieselotte
Rahim, Rummana
Hasan, Abu
Iwamoto, Hisahiko
Leaungwutiwong, Pornsawan
van Esbroeck, Marjan
Rahman, Mizanur
Shioda, Tatsuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP19fm0108003)
Article History
Received: 24 December 2019
Accepted: 23 June 2020
First Online: 2 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study proposal was approved by the Research and Ethical Practice Committee of Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Approval No. 1013/15) and Apollo Hospitals Dhaka (Approval No. ERC 16/2018–1). This study was exempt from obtaining participants’ consent since only leftover specimens were used after anonymization.
: Not applicable.
: KS and HI are paid employees from TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo. TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo created the immunochromatographic devices and supplied them to Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and Apollo Hospitals Dhaka for evaluation. TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.