Costa, Camila https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-5581
Figueiredo, Carolina
Costa, Sandra
Ferreira, Paulo Miguel
Amorim, António
Prieto, Lourdes
Pinto, Nádia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007274, https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.05655.BD, 2022.04997. CEECIND)
Universidade do Porto
Article History
Received: 2 October 2024
Accepted: 18 April 2025
First Online: 9 May 2025
Declarations
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: Proper ethics approval was obtained from the Committee for Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Research of i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Portugal (5/CECRI/2022) regarding the statistical analysis of both environmental and reference genetic samples (fully and irreversibly anonymized when applied).
: The authors declare no competing interests.