Silveira, Landulfo Jr.
Borges, Rita de Cássia Fernandes
Navarro, Ricardo Scarparo
Giana, Hector Enrique
Zângaro, Renato Amaro
Pacheco, Marcos Tadeu Tavares
Fernandes, Adriana Barrinha
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2009/01788-5)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2016
Accepted: 13 February 2017
First Online: 7 March 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The project has been supported in part by a public funding agency (São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP), Process FAPESP no. 2009/01788-5, that allowed to purchase the Raman spectrometer.Laboratório Oswaldo Cruz, owned by one of the authors (Hector Enrique Giana), has provided the serum samples and performed the biochemical assay used as the gold standard.
: The project has been submitted and received approval from the Research Ethics Committee of the Universidade Camilo Castelo Branco (Process no. 315993, CAAE no. 16464913400005494).
: Since we used human serum samples from routine laboratory assay, the laboratory provided the informed consent.