Yilmaz, Feyza
Null, Megan
Astling, David
Yu, Hung-Chun
Cole, Joanne
Santorico, Stephanie A.
Hallgrimsson, Benedikt
Manyama, Mange
Spritz, Richard A.
Hendricks, Audrey E.
Shaikh, Tamim H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4264-4272
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (DE025363)
Article History
Received: 28 December 2020
Accepted: 6 May 2021
First Online: 17 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study protocol (#09–0731) and participating investigators were reviewed and approved by the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board (USA) as the official Institutional Review Board of Record. The study protocol and investigators were additionally reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (Mwanza, Tanzania), the University of Calgary (Canada), Florida State University (USA), and the National Institute for Medical Research (Tanzania). The study conformed to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Subjects were recruited and the study explained by the local investigator in Swahili. All study subjects were aged 3–21. The legal age of majority in Tanzania is 18; accordingly, as required, written informed consent to participate was obtained from all subjects aged 18–21 or from the parents of subjects aged 3–17, using a consent form in either English or Swahili, as per the choice of the person providing consent.
: Not applicable.
: None.