Cherrez-Ojeda, Ivan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1610-239X
Gallardo-Bastidas, Juan C.
Borrero, Gabriela Rouillon
Mautong, Hans
Silva, Paola Andrea Mena
Sarfraz, Zouina
Sarfraz, Azza
Cano, Leonardo
Robles-Velasco, Karla
Article History
Received: 2 January 2024
Revised: 18 March 2024
Accepted: 18 March 2024
First Online: 4 April 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the ethics committee of Guayaquil, Ecuador with No. HCK-CEISH-0018–022. Participants indicated their voluntary consent to participate in accordance with the outlined procedures and understand that their responses will be kept confidential.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.