Xiao, Hong
Tong, Xin
Huang, Ru
Gao, Lidong
Hu, Shixiong
Li, Yapin
Gao, Hongwei
Zheng, Pai
Yang, Huisuo
Huang, Zheng Y. X.
Tan, Hua
Tian, Huaiyu
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81673234)
Key Discipline Construction Project in Hunan Province (2008001)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Hunan Province, China (2015JC3063)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31500383)
Article History
Received: 10 October 2016
Accepted: 12 November 2017
First Online: 12 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study was reviewed and approved by the research institutional review board of the Hunan Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In this study, all the patient medical data analyzed were anonymized for the consideration of confidentiality, only aggregated data were used in the data analysis and no personal information has been used. The whole rodent trapping campaign obtained new samples specifically for this study and was validated by the Animal Ethics Committee of the Hunan CDC. Because the methods did not include animal experimentation, it was not necessary to obtain an animal ethics license. Furthermore, none of the rodent species investigated in the present study are protected in China and none of the species captured are included in the China Species Red List.
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