Funding for this research was provided by:
the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017R1D1A1B03034730)
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Grant Number H-GUARD_2014M3A6B2060509)
Yonsei University College of Medicine (6-2014-0039)
National Research Foundation of Korea (2017M3A7B4039936)
Article History
Received: 9 September 2018
Accepted: 25 March 2019
First Online: 2 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All animal experiments followed the regulations of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (IACUC Approval no. 2014-0031-2). The IRB committee of Yonsei University Health System ruled the study was exempt from the need for ethics approval for the use of bacterial strains taken from patients and also ruled that consent to participate was waived (IRB approval number 4-2019-0023).
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