Olamide K. Oloniniyi: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Uche S. Unigwe: Role: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Sayaka Okada: Role: Investigation
Mayuko Kimura: Role: Investigation
Shota Koyano: Role: Investigation
Yukiko Miyazaki: Role: Investigation
Michael O. Iroezindu: Role: Resources
Nnenna A. Ajayi: Role: Resources
Chinedu M. Chukwubike: Role: Resources
Nneka M. Chika-Igwenyi: Role: Resources
Anne C. Ndu: Role: Resources
Damian U. Nwidi: Role: Resources
Haruka Abe: Role: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Shuzo Urata: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Yohei Kurosaki: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Jiro Yasuda: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Townsend Peterson: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosntds
Title:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Print):
1935-2727
ISSN
(Electronic):
1935-2735
Publication date
(Electronic):
30
November
2018
Publication date Collection:
November
2018
Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Electronic Location Identifier: e0006971
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN),
Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
[2
]
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Program for Nurturing Global Leaders in
Tropical and Emerging Communicable Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
[3
]
Department of Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Ebonyi, Nigeria
[4
]
Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu,
Nigeria
[5
]
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla,
Enugu, Nigeria
[6
]
Department of Microbiology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla,
Enugu, Nigeria
[7
]
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla,
Enugu, Nigeria
[8
]
National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases (CCPID),
Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
The University of Kansas, UNITED STATES
Author notes
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article
Publisher ID:
PNTD-D-18-01169
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006971
PMC ID: 6267959
PubMed ID: 30500827
SO-VID: 6e3e8660-132f-4014-84c4-bcde16382557
Copyright © © 2018 Oloniniyi et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Award ID: 17fk0108101h0001
Award Recipient
:
Jiro Yasuda
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001691, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science;
Award ID: JP25305016
Award Recipient
:
Jiro Yasuda
This work was supported by grants from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
(17fk0108101h0001 to JY
https://www.amed.go.jp/en/index.html) and Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
(JP25305016 to JY
https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/index.html). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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