Troisi, Jacopo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-7379
Landolfi, Annamaria
Sarno, Laura
Richards, Sean
Symes, Steven
Adair, David
Ciccone, Carla
Scala, Giovanni
Martinelli, Pasquale
Guida, Maurizio
Funding for this research was provided by:
FARBS 2016
Article History
Received: 12 December 2017
Accepted: 14 May 2018
First Online: 25 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: J. Troisi, G. Scala, and M. Guida have an Italian patent for the diagnostic test described in the manuscript (Patent no. 0001423755/2016) and have applied for a PCT extension. All the other authors have no conflict of interest.
: 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. The study was approved by the local ethics committee (IRB n.4/2013) and a written consent form was signed by each participant.