Liu, Kuo-Lan
Tsai, Li-Chin
Lin, Yu-Chih
Chang, Yu-Hsuan
Huang, Nu-En
Wu, Fang-Chin
Lin, Chun-Yen
Huang, Kuo-Cheng
Chen, Chiang-Ho
Hsieh, Tung-Ho
Yang, Lih-Jing
Lee, James Chun-I
Linacre, Adrian
Hsieh, Hsing-Mei https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7467-1278
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (NSC 102-2628-B-015-001-MY2)
Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan (108-0805-05-17-01/109-0805-05-17-01)
Article History
Received: 13 August 2021
Accepted: 25 October 2021
First Online: 31 October 2021
Declarations
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: In this study, samples were collected after informed consent and following the procedures approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Antai-Tian-Sheng Memorial Hospital (IRB No. 18-074-B) in Taiwan. None of the authors is affiliated to the hospital and the study was not carried out at the hospital. This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.