Müller, Katharina
Girl, Philipp http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1370-4114
Giebl, Andreas
Gruetzner, Stefanie
Antwerpen, Markus
Khatamzas, Elham
Wölfel, Roman
von Buttlar, Heiner
Funding for this research was provided by:
bundeswehr medical service
Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr
Article History
Received: 28 July 2021
Accepted: 22 September 2021
First Online: 4 October 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: The study was carried out in-line with “The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki)”. The use of serum samples complied with the guidelines of the Central Ethics Committee of the German Medical Association (Dtsch Arztebl 2003; 100(23): A-1632). In accordance with these guidelines, the anonymized use of residual material from the samples sent to our laboratory for diagnostic purposes is permissible, provided that the patients have not decided against this procedure. Samples from patients who had decided against this procedure were excluded from the analyses.