Wu, Wei
An, Shu-Yi
Guan, Peng
Huang, De-Sheng
Zhou, Bao-Sen
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81202254, 71573275)
Science Foundation of Liaoning Provincial Department of Education (LK201644, LFWK201719)
Article History
Received: 27 August 2018
Accepted: 26 April 2019
First Online: 14 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research institutional review boards of China Medical University approved the protocol of this study, and determined that the analysis of publicly open data of human brucellosis cases in mainland China was part of continuing public health surveillance of a notifiable infectious disease and thus was exempt from institutional review board assessment. All data were supplied and analyzed in the anonymous format, without access to personal identifying or confidential information.
: Not applicable.
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