Boucoiran, Isabelle
Dieumegard, Hinatea
Bujold, Emmanuel
Calheiros, Renato Calabro
Caron, Stéphane
Dufour, Mi-Suk Kang
Gantt, Soren
Hendrix, Laura
Kunzweiler, Colin
Larouche, Ariane
Lewin, Antoine
Leroux, Caroline
Ouellet, Annie
Renaud, Christian
Taillefer, Suzanne
Diaz-Decaro, John
Article History
Received: 14 August 2025
Accepted: 16 October 2025
First Online: 26 November 2025
Declarations
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: Written informed consent is obtained from all study participants. This study protocol was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and all procedures involving human participants was approved by the ethics review board of the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine and authorized by CHU de Québec-ULaval and CHU de Sherbrooke (Project# MP-21–2024–6573), and approved by Héma-Québec Research Ethics Committee (Project# 2024–015).
: No consent is required for publication of this protocol as no study data, individual data or images are presented here.
: IB is funded by a senior salary award from the “ Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec ”. She has received consulting fees from Pfizer and Moderna. Altona is donating the PCR kits used for this study.