Dung Thanh Nguyen: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Thanh Thi Thanh Tran: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Software
Ngoc My Nghiem: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
Writing – original draft
Phuong Thanh Le: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Quang Minh Vo: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review &
editing
Jeremy Day: Role: Data curationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Motiur Rahman:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6702-5355
Role: ConceptualizationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Hung Mạnh Le: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Tatsuo Kanda: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
20
May
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0233446
Affiliations
[1
]
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
[2
]
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Asia Programme, The Hospital
for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
[3
]
Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford
University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Nihon University School of Medicine, JAPAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-20-06277
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233446
PMC ID: 7239434
PubMed ID: 32433676
SO-VID: 04d8fe67-aa34-43cc-bc91-c60287f4af73
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