Obasa, Adetayo Emmanuel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0934-9586
Ambikan, Anoop T.
Gupta, Soham
Neogi, Ujjwal
Jacobs, Graeme Brendon
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation South Africa
National Research Foundation ZA
Article History
Received: 27 May 2020
Accepted: 16 February 2021
First Online: 25 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Health Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University, South Africa (N15/08/071). The study was conducted according to the ethical guidelines and principles of the Declaration of Helsinki 2013, the South African Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice and the Medical Research Council Ethical Guidelines for Research. A waiver of written informed consent was awarded to conduct sequence analyses on these samples by the Health Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.