Sha, Yongjie
Dong, Willa
Tang, Weiming
Zheng, Lingling
Huang, Xi
Muessig, Kathryn E.
Tucker, Joseph D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Graduate Tuition Incentive Scholarship and Dissertation Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
the STD/HIV T32 Predoctoral Training Program from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (5T32AI007001-42)
the United States Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81903371)
National Social Science Fund of China (No. 19CSH018)
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFE0103800)
Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NIAID 5P30AI050410)
National Institutes of Health (R25 AI140495, NIAID K24AI143471)
Article History
Received: 3 June 2021
Accepted: 29 September 2021
First Online: 14 October 2021
Declarations
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: This study was approved by institutional review boards at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Southern Medical University-Dermatology Hospital. All participants provided informed consent by checking a box on a self-administered online informed consent form indicating their agreement to participate in the study. All stages of the research were carried out in accordance with the current guidelines and regulations of ethics in research with human beings.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Weiming Tang is an associate editor of BMC Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Joseph D. Tucker is a section editor of BMC Infectious Diseases. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.