Alagna, Riccardo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8768-8180
Combary, Adjima
Tagliani, Elisa
Sawadogo, Léon Tinnoga
Saouadogo, Tandaogo
Diandé, Souba
Ouedraogo, Francis
Cirillo, Daniela Maria
Article History
Received: 4 February 2020
Accepted: 23 March 2021
First Online: 13 April 2021
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was deemed as not necessary from the Comité national d’éthique pour la recherche en santé (CNRES), the Direction de la protection de la santé de la population (DPSP) of Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso and the Comitato Etico of I.R.C.C.S Ospedale San Raffaele as the intervention, approved by the DPSP, was conducted as part of the standard of care provided by the National TB Programme of Burkina Faso. In addition, all the collected data were anonymized and no patients sensitive information were used in data analysis. Access to data has been granted to the TB Surpanational Reference Laboratory of Milan by the National TB Programme of Burkina Faso within the framework of collaboration agreement signed between the two parties in 2011.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.