Davies, Jessica C.
Choo-Kang, Candice
Soepnel, Larske
Geffen, Hayli
Africa, Chad
Mtintsilana, Asanda
Bovet, Pascal
Viswanathan, Bharathi
Bedu-Addo, Kweku
Plange-Rhule, Jacob
Boateng, Prince Oti
Apusiga, Kingsley
Dei, Oscar Akunor
Forrester, Terrence E.
Williams, Marie
Lambert, Estelle V.
Rae, Dale E.
Sinyanya, Nandipha
Layden, Brian T.
Gilbert, Jack A.
Ecklu-Mensah, Gertrude
Joyce, Cara
Luke, Amy
Dugas, Lara R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (1R01DK80763, R01DK111848, R01HL148271)
Article History
Received: 6 September 2024
Accepted: 2 January 2025
First Online: 25 February 2025
Declarations
:
: All participants consented to their information being used for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The protocols for METS and METS-Microbiome were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Loyola University Chicago, IL, US; the Committee on Human Research Publication and Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town, South Africa; the Board for Ethics and Clinical Research of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Ethics Committee of the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. All participants provided written informed consent 10,34,35 . The protocol for the current analysis was also approved by the University of Cape Town’s Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC ref: 632/2022).