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Authors
Founou, Raspail Carrel
Founou, Luria Leslie
Allam, Mushal
Ismail, Arshad
Essack, Sabiha Yusuf
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
NRF Incentive Funding (85595)
NRF Competitive Grant for Rated Researchers (106063)
DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Antibiotic Resistance and One Health (98342)
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Article History
Received: 16 January 2024
Accepted: 5 May 2024
First Online: 4 July 2024
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from the Biomedical Research Ethics committee (BREC) (<b>No. BF512/16</b>, <b>sub-study of BCA444/16</b>) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Permission to conduct the research was also granted from the Department of Health, uMgungundlovu District and hospital managers. The study was conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki. All methods and protocols used were approved by the Antimicrobial Research Unit (ARU) at the university of KwaZulu-Natal in accordance with the relevant international guidelines and regulations for research laboratory ethics. Informed written consent was provided to the participant in this study.
: Not applicable.
: Professor Essack is a member of the Global Respiratory Infection Partnership and the Global Hygiene Council sponsored by unrestricted educational grants from Reckitt and Benckiser, UK. All other authors declare that there is no competing financial and non-financial interest.The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
: Antimicrobial Research Unit, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa;Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Disease (ARID) Research Unit, Research Institute of Centre of Expertise and Biological Diagnostic of Cameroon (CEDBCAM-RI), Yaoundé, Cameroon;Department of Microbiology-Haematology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon;Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (ReMARCH) Research Unit, Research.Institute of the Centre of Expertise and Biological Diagnostic of Cameroon (CEDBCAM-RI); Yaoundé, Cameroon;Bioinformatics & Applied Machine Learning Research Unit, EDEN Biosciences Research Institute (EBRI), EDEN Foundation, Yaoundé Cameroon;Sequencing Core Facility, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
