Lewis, Crystal Fuller
Rivera, Alexis V.
Crawford, Natalie D.
Gordon, Kirsha
White, Kellee
Vlahov, David
Galea, Sandro
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA13146)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA12801)
National Institute on General Medical Sciences (5R25GM0624510)
Article History
Received: 29 May 2015
Revised: 5 October 2015
Accepted: 7 October 2015
First Online: 10 December 2015
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: These studies were conducted at the New York Academy of Medicine in collaboration with The New York Blood Center with both IRBs granting approval for this research.
: All authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.