Saito, Norihiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-6846
Kitazawa, Junichi
Horiuchi, Hiroko
Yamamoto, Takeo
Kimura, Masahiko
Inoue, Fumio
Matsui, Mika
Minakawa, Satoko
Itoga, Masamichi
Tsuchiya, Junichiro
Suzuki, Satowa
Hisatsune, Junzo
Gu, Yoshiaki
Sugai, Motoyuki
Kayaba, Hiroyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (21fk0108604j0001)
Article History
Received: 22 September 2021
Accepted: 5 July 2022
First Online: 23 July 2022
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine (approval number 2019-1012). Patient consent was not required because of the retrospective nature of the study, which was based entirely on anonymized data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.