Olwal, Charles Ochieng’
Ang’ienda, Paul Oyieng’
Onyango, David Miruka
Ochiel, Daniel Otieno
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI/RCD/ST&I/7THCALL/MSc/019)
Article History
Received: 11 October 2017
Accepted: 23 April 2018
First Online: 2 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The use of samples from human participants and all the experimental protocols were reviewed and approved by the Maseno University Ethics Review Committee (Reference number: MSU/DRPI/MUERC/000187/15). Further, permission to recruit outpatients at the Kisumu County Hospital in this study was granted by the Kisumu County Hospital, Kenya (Research file number: 74–2015). Written informed consents were obtained from all the participants for sample collection and further analyses before they participated in this study.
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