Suzuki, Keita
Nakayama, Emi E.
Saito, Akatsuki
Egawa, Akio
Sato, Tairyu
Phadungsombat, Juthamas
Rahim, Rummana
Hasan, Abu
Iwamoto, Hisahiko
Rahman, Mizanur
Shioda, Tatsuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP18fm0108003)
Article History
Received: 3 May 2019
Accepted: 21 July 2019
First Online: 15 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study proposal was approved by the Research and Ethical Practice Committee of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka (Approval No. ERC 16/2018–3). This study was exempt from obtaining participants’ consent since only leftover specimens were used after anonymization.
: Not applicable.
: KS and HI are paid employees of TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo. TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo created the immunochromatographic devices (TKK-1st kit and TKK-2nd kit) and supplied them to Apollo Hospitals Dhaka for evaluation. TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.