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Sayasone, Somphou https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8219-9567
Norkhankham, Chomseng
Many, Sysouphanh
Homsana, Anousin
Inpankaew, Tawin
Odermatt, Peter
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
This study was funded by the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation and the Swiss National Science Foundation (IZJFZ3_185644)
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Article History
Received: 6 April 2025
Accepted: 11 December 2025
First Online: 20 January 2026
Declarations
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: The study has fully adhered to the rules and principles of the Helsinki Declaration for health research. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Lao National Health Research Ethics Committee (No.025/NECHR, dated 23 May 2023). All study participants have voluntarily participated in the study. A written informed consent was obtained from each participant before their enrolment. The names of respondents were not included in the questionnaires, and data were fully anonymized to ensure participants' privacy. Before the data collection, a researcher explained the study objective, methodology, and possible risks to each study participant. The enrolment of dogs and cats was approved by their owners.
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: Somphou Sayasone is an editorial board member of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty . He was not involved in the peer-review or handling of the manuscript. The authors have no other competing interests to disclose.
