Rodman Berlot, Jasna
Krivec, Uroš
Praprotnik, Marina
Mrvič, Tatjana
Kogoj, Rok
Keše, Darja
Article History
Received: 14 January 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
First Online: 30 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: The authors declare that ethical approval was not required. The study was performed only by using remnants of specimens that had initially been collected for diagnostic purposes. All samples from patients included in the study were rendered anonymous. The patients were registered with an encrypted number code. Therefore, individuals could not be matched with their samples and their epidemiological and clinical data. The study was conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki, the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine and the Slovene Code of Medical Deontology. Since no additional samples or data were collected, the study was deemed to be low risk and the need for additional ethical permission from the National Medical Ethics Committee was waived.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.