Liu, Kuo-Lan
Tsai, Li-Chin
Lin, Yu-Chih
Huang, Nu-En
Yang, Lih-Jing
Su, Chih-Wen
Lee, James Chun-I
Linacre, Adrian
Hsieh, Hsing-Mei http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7467-1278
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (NSC 102-2628-B-015-001-MY2)
Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan (108-0805-05-17-01)
Article History
Received: 3 December 2019
Accepted: 24 March 2020
First Online: 8 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: In this study, samples were collected after informed consent and following the procedures approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Taoyuan General Hospitals (IRB No. TYGH102011) and Antai-Tian-Sheng Memorial Hospital (IRB No. 18–074-B) in Taiwan. Neither the authors are affiliated to these hospitals nor the study was carried out in these hospitals. And the studies have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.