Thapa, Mamata
Gompo, Tulsi Ram
Sugi, Tatsuki
Asada, Masahito
Arima, Hiroaki
Pandey, Kishor
Funding for this research was provided by:
Joint Usage / Research Center on Tropical Disease, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University (2023-Seeds-02)
Article History
Received: 1 July 2025
Accepted: 28 August 2025
First Online: 30 September 2025
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee of the Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University (210/081/081) and the Institutional Review Committee of Gandaki Medical College (440/080/081), and informed consent was obtained from the participants during the interviews and sample collection.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.