Mayr, Florian B. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2298-9011
Talisa, Victor B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5246-0349
Castro, Alexander D.
Shaikh, Obaid S.
Omer, Saad B. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5383-3474
Butt, Adeel A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-1826
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (K23GM132688)
Article History
Received: 27 February 2022
Accepted: 15 June 2022
First Online: 25 June 2022
Competing interests
: Dr. Butt has received investigator-initiated grant funding from Gilead Sciences (to the institution, Veterans Health Foundation of Pittsburgh), unrelated to the work presented here. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (IRB Pro 00003536). A waiver of informed consent was granted for the study.