Albadran, Hanady A.
Monteagudo-Mera, Andrea
Khutoryanskiy, Vitaliy V.
Charalampopoulos, Dimitris
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Reading
Article History
Received: 19 December 2019
Revised: 13 April 2020
Accepted: 17 April 2020
First Online: 6 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was carried out in duplicate using faecal samples from three different volunteers (one faecal donor for each experimental setup). The study was conducted according to guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki 1975, as revised in 1983. After obtaining verbal informed consent, a standard questionnaire to collect information regarding the health status, drug use, clinical anamnesis, and lifestyle was administrated before the donor was asked to provide a faecal sample. Ethical approval of collecting faecal samples from healthy volunteers was obtained by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Reading in 2014.