Gassowski, Martyna
Poethko-Müller, Christina
Schlaud, Martin
Sailer, Andrea
Dehmel, Kerstin
Bremer, Viviane
Dudareva, Sandra
Jansen, Klaus
Baier, Michael
Straube, Eberhard
Baillot, Armin
Bartsch, Patricia
Brüning, Thomas
Cremer, Josef
Dallügge-Tamm, Helga
Gröning, Arndt
Eicke, Stephan
Emrich, Dagmar
Fritsche, Gundula
Gjavotchanoff, Rosi
Gohl, Peter
Götzrath, Matthias
Meye, Axel
Ehrhard, Ingrid
Köpke, Beate
Henrich, Birgit
Kastilan, Caroline
Lehmann, Susanne
Märzacker, Anneliese
Miller, Bernhard
Mohrmann, Gerrit
Pache, Christian
Pfüller, Roland
Tiemann, Carsten
Wisplinghoff, Hilmar
Müller, Thomas
Aepinus, Christian
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert Koch-Institut
Article History
Received: 15 February 2022
Accepted: 18 May 2022
First Online: 3 June 2022
Declarations
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: The health examination survey of children and adolescents received ethical approval from Hannover Medical School’s ethics committee in 2014 (No. 2275–2014), the amendment for the testing of urine for chlamydia was approved on October 27<sup>th</sup> 2017. The health examination survey of adults received ethical approval from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin ethics committee in September 2008 (No. EA2/047/08). The approval for further use of collected biological samples was included in the informed consent form of the respective survey and was collected in written form prior to study participation (in case of minor participants, consent was collected from legal guardians).As the chlamydia laboratory sentinel system only collects data generated as a result of routine testing and no additional tests are performed on the samples, no ethical approval was required for the establishment of the system. Due to these facts, and that no patient-identifying data are collected, informed consent of the participants was not necessary.All three study protocols were reviewed and approved by the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information prior to begin of data collection. All methods of the two surveys and of the laboratory sentinel system from chlamydia were carried out in accordance with all relevant guidelines and regulation.
: Not applicable.
: KJ is member of the editorial board at BMC Infectious Diseases. None of the authors declares competing interests.