Takahashi, Emiri
Nonaka, Daisuke
Iwagami, Moritoshi
Phoutnalong, Vilay
Chanthakoumane, Ketmany
Kobayashi, Jun
Pongvongsa, Tiengkham
Kounnavong, Sengchanh
Hongvanthong, Bouasy
Brey, Paul T.
Kano, Shigeyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
JICA/AMED (SATREPS project for the “Development of innovative research technique in genetic epidemiology of malaria and other parasitic diseases in the Lao PDR for containing their expanding endemicity")
Article History
Received: 5 August 2018
Accepted: 28 November 2018
First Online: 22 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the National Ethics Committee for Health Research, Ministry of Health, Lao PDR (No. 034/NECHR, 2016) and the Ethics Review Committee for Epidemiological Study, University of Ryukyus, Japan (No. 346). Before starting the study, surveyors explained the details of the study to the participants, such as its purpose, voluntary participation, information that would be collected and how the data would be stored and managed. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant. For the healthcare workers study, self-administered anonymous questionnaires were used.
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