Osae, Eugene Appenteng https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2059-7823
Ablorddepey, Reynolds Kwame
Horstmann, Jens
Kumah, David Ben
Steven, Philipp
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Forschergruppe FOR2240, DFG STE 1928/4 -1, www.for2240.de)
Article History
Received: 18 October 2017
Accepted: 25 July 2018
First Online: 16 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval was granted by the Committee on Human Research, Publication and Ethics at the School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology/ Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana (CHRPE/ AP/448/16). Informed consent was sought and obtained from each subject.
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