Karponi, Garyfalia
Kritas, Spyridon K.
Papadopoulou, Gina
Akrioti, Elissavet-Kalliopi
Papanikolaou, Eleni
Petridou, Evanthia
Funding for this research was provided by:
State Scholarships Foundation (5001552)
Article History
Received: 10 July 2019
Accepted: 18 November 2019
First Online: 27 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to Greek National Legislation (Presidential Degree 56/2013), authorization from the institutional review board (IRB) to implement basic research protocols as the one described in the current paper is not required. Regarding the consent from the owner, based on the above legislation it is not mandatory to obtain written consent to work with sheep blood from the owners, so we obtained an oral one. The blood sample was drawn during routine testing of the animals and no animal was ad hoc subjected to blood collection. No animal was subjected to any pain, discomfort or distressed during handling.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.