Andrés Jenuer Matta, Alvaro Jairo Pazos, Javier Andrés Bustamante-Rengifo, Luis Eduardo Bravo
Andrés Jenuer Matta, Luis Eduardo Bravo, Javier Andrés Bustamante, Registro Poblacional de Cáncer de Cali, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Cali 760043, Colombia
Alvaro Jairo Pazos, Department of Biology, Universidad de Nariño, Pasto 520002, Colombia
Author contributions: All the authors that were involved in the acquisition and interpretation of the results, read and approved the final manuscript; Matta AJ, Pazos AJ and Bustamante-Rengifo JA conducted the microbiological and molecular tests; Matta AJ and Bravo LE analyzed the data; Matta AJ, Pazos AJ, Bustamante-Rengifo JA and Bravo LE wrote, edited, and revised the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: All procedures involving human participants were reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest related to this study.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at andres.matta@correounivalle.edu.co Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
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Correspondence to: Andres Jenuer Matta, MSc, PhD, Registro Poblacional de Cáncer de Cali, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Street 4B No. 36-00, Building 116, Floor 4, Cali 760043, Colombia. andres.matta@correounivalle.edu.co
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Received: July 13, 2016
Peer-review started: July 17, 2016
First decision: August 19, 2016
Revised: September 5, 2016
Accepted: September 14, 2016
Article in press: September 14, 2016
Published online: February 7, 2017
