Okasha, Hend http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1125-245X
Dahroug, Heba
Gouda, Abdullah E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7167-2133
Shemis, Mohamed Abbas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2493-7466
Funding for this research was provided by:
Theodor Bilharz Research Institute
Article History
Received: 26 August 2023
Accepted: 28 October 2023
First Online: 15 November 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declared that they have no competing interest.
: The study’s samples were all preserved, and codes rather than patients’ names were used. The study’s protocol was authorized by the institutional review board of TBRI under Federal Wide Assurance (FWA00010609/PT-691), and the work was done in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki for Experiments in Humans.
: Informed consent was obtained from all human subjects.
: All authors confirm that the whole work described has not been published before; it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; and its publication has been approved by all co-authors.