Xia, Yong
Chen, Xu
Sun, Xue Wei
Wang, Zi Juan
Meng, Chuang
Guo, Tingting
Shi, Jia Xin
Zhou, Jun
Funding for this research was provided by:
the 2023 Yangzhou Social Development Project (YZ2023098)
the Yangzhou Key Discipline Cultivation Project (YZYXZDXK-010)
the Yangzhou City Basic Research Program (Joint Special Project) - Health and Wellness Category (2024-4-11)
the Open Project Program of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis (R2202)
Article History
Received: 30 April 2026
Accepted: 30 July 2026
First Online: 11 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Jiangsu Province, China (Approval No: 2021-YKLA-28-004). Clinical data and biological samples were collected retrospectively from January 2020 to December 2021. All procedures involving human participants were conducted 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. This study was conducted with the informed consent of all participants involved.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.