Simčič, Saša http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-8675
Berlec, Aleš
Stopinšek, Sanja http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-5030
Štrukelj, Borut
Orel, Rok
Article History
Received: 3 July 2018
Accepted: 6 February 2019
First Online: 27 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Aleš Berlec and Borut Štrukelj are co-inventors of patent US 8754198 B2 (Modified food grade microorganism for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease), issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office. For the remaining authors, no conflicts of interest are declared.
: The National Medical Ethics Committee of the Republic of Slovenia approved the study protocol (Number 107/06/12). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.