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Authors
Acheampong, Godfred
Owusu, Michael
Owusu-Ofori, Alex
Osei, Isaac
Sarpong, Nimako
Sylverken, Augustina
Kung, Hung-Jui
Cho, Shu-Ting
Kuo, Chih-Horng
Park, Se Eun
Marks, Florian
Adu-Sarkodie, Yaw
Owusu-Dabo, Ellis http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-4292
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
KNUST Resarch Fund
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Article History
Received: 2 July 2019
Accepted: 30 September 2019
First Online: 28 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Permission was sought from all patients and their relatives before samples were taken. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants of the study by means of signature and/or thumbprinting. Children older than 7 yrs. but younger than 18 yrs. gave their assent together with parental/guardian consent (written) before they were enrolled into the study. The main study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Committee for Human Research Publications and Ethics (CHRPE) at the School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
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: The authors (including Florian Marks, who is an editorial board member for BMC Infectious Diseases) declare that they have no competing interests.
