Document is current

Article History

Accepted: 8 June 2023

First Online: 1 July 2023

Declarations

:

: All procedures performed in this study that involved human waste tissues and animal study were approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at Virginia Tech.

: All study participants provided written informed consent prior to enrolment.

: This manuscript has been approved by all authors and is solely the work of the authors named.

: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit .