Fares, Wasfi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0452-2856
Chouikha, Anissa
Ghedira, Kais
Gdoura, Meriam
Rezig, Dorra
Boubaker, Sondes Haddad
Dhifallah, Imen Ben
Touzi, Henda
Hammami, Walid
Meddeb, Zina
Sadraoui, Amel
Hogga, Nahed
Abouda, Imen
Kwasiborski, Aurélia
Hourdel, Véronique
Mikaty, Guillain
Caro, Valérie
Manuguerra, Jean-Claude
Alaya, Nissaf Ben
Triki, Henda
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Commission (DEVCO: IFS/2018/402-247))
Article History
Received: 24 June 2020
Accepted: 5 July 2021
First Online: 14 July 2021
Declarations
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: Our work was a retrospective analysis of already available samples collected as part of the COVID-19 diagnostic effort, and all samples used for analysis were anonymized. This work was approved by the ethical institutional review board “Comité d’Ethique Bio-Médicale (CEBM)” from the Institut Pasteur de Tunis (ref.2020/14/I/LR16IPT/V1). Consequently, our institutional Review Board (IRB) deemed it unnecessary to obtain ethics approval for this work. The need for consent was also deemed unnecessary by the IRB.
: Not applicable.
: The author’s declare no conflict of interest.