Arima, Hiroaki
Koirala, Sweta
Nema, Kotaro
Nakano, Masayuki
Ito, Hiromu
Poudel, Kapil Madi
Pandey, Kishor
Pandey, Basu Dev
Yamamoto, Taro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science London (17H04659)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H04731, 19H05737)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2021
Accepted: 11 March 2022
First Online: 2 April 2022
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the ethics committees of the Nepal Health Research Council (Approval # 142/2016) and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University (# 150226137-3). Each participant in this study was provided detailed information about the research objectives, data collection procedures, benefits, risks, and confidentiality before written informed consent was obtained. In addition, when explaining the research content, we stated that participation in this research is voluntary and that the participant could be excluded from the research at any time.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.