Leung, Michael https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4831-9566
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6805-3094
Wania, Frank https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3836-0901
Papp, Eszter
Herzke, Dorte
Mahmud, Abdullah Al
Roth, Daniel E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7742-0925
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hospital for Sick Children (2016 C-GCH Catalyst Grant)
Article History
Received: 8 March 2018
Revised: 18 July 2018
Accepted: 20 July 2018
First Online: 27 July 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare 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 standard. For this type of study, formal consent is not required. Analyses of umbilical cord blood specimens were approved by the Research Ethics Board at the Hospital for Sick Children (Canada), and was exempt from Institutional Ethical Review at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway) and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (Bangladesh). Data collection and analyses for the original MDIG trial were approved by The Hospital for Sick Children (Canada) and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (Bangladesh).