Rahpeyma, Mehdi
Samarbaf-Zadeh, Alireza
Makvandi, Manoochehr
Ghadiri, Ata A.
Dowall, Stuart D.
Fotouhi, Fatemeh
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Research Institute, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. (91119)
Article History
Received: 19 August 2016
Accepted: 22 February 2017
First Online: 18 March 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was funded by Health Research Institute, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran (PhD Grant No. 91119).
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest
: Animal experiments described in this paper were conducted according to NIH guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals and were approved by the ethics committee of Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences (Approval No. 2015-4-13). All procedures performed in studies involving human samples were approved by the ethics committee of Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences (Approval No. 2015-4-13) and were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Studies using human samples were retrospective, and therefore, informed consent from the patients for their use in this study was not obtained.
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