Zhang, Jiajia
Olatosi, Bankole http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8295-8735
Yang, Xueying
Weissman, Sharon
Li, Zhenlong
Hu, Jianjun
Li, Xiaoming
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI164947-01, R01AI164947-01)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2021
Accepted: 11 January 2022
First Online: 4 February 2022
Declarations
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: Informed consent to participate is not required by US law when research uses secondary data under category 4 Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (45 CFR 46). This study was approved by the University of South Carolina IRB as not human subjects and declared non-exempt under category 4: “The Office of Research Compliance, on behalf of the Institutional Review Board, has determined that the referenced study meets the Not Human Subject criteria set forth by the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR 46) of: a. the specimens and/or private information/data were not collected specifically for the currently proposed research project through an interaction/intervention with living individuals AND. b. the investigator(s) including collaborators on the proposed research cannot readily ascertain the identity of the individual(s) to whom the coded private information or specimens pertain. Ethics approval IRB # Pro00109797.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests beyond NIH funding. This study is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).