Thingholm, Louise B.
Bang, Corinna
Rühlemann, Malte C.
Starke, Annika
Sicks, Florian
Kaspari, Verena
Jandowsky, Anabell
Frölich, Kai
Ismer, Gabriele
Bernhard, Andreas
Bombis, Claudia
Struve, Barbara
Rausch, Philipp
Franke, Andre
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel
Article History
Received: 16 June 2021
Accepted: 27 September 2021
First Online: 11 October 2021
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and ethical approval was granted by the ethics committees at Kiel University (D441, German controls) and at Guinea-Bissau (Comité Nacional de Ética na Saúde) (ref. no. 062/CNES/INASA/2017) as well as of Region of Southern Denmark (ref. no. S-20160138). Permissions and approvals for the adult African cohort is described in detail in Gogarten et al. 2021 [CitationRef removed]. All volunteers or parents of volunteers provided oral and written informed consent.No ethical approval for animal faecal samples was obtained because this study did not involve a prospective evaluation, did not involve laboratory animals, and only involved non-invasive procedures.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.