Dymond, Chelsea
Xiao, Mengli
Finck, Lani
Lategan, Hendrick
Oosthuizen, George
de Vries, Shaheem
Verster, Janette
Wylie, Craig
Collaborators, EpiC Study Site
Stassen, Willem
Maddry, Joseph
Schauer, Steven
Dixon, Julia
Mould-Millman, Nee-Kofi
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-20-2-0042, F2MTW8-22-99-GW01.)
Article History
Received: 29 April 2025
Accepted: 6 August 2025
First Online: 30 September 2025
Declarations
:
: Ethics approval for the EpiC study was provided by the Stellenbosch University Health Research Ethics Committee, the primary approving IRB (Project ID 14866; Ref. No. N20/03/036), with a single-site reliance issued by the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board (Protocol # 20–2176) and the US Department of Defense Office of Human Research Oversight. The study was approved to use a waiver of patient informed consent, therefore no patient consent was required nor collected. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.