Ethics approval and consent to participate
The study was revised and approved by the Ethical Committee of The Health Science Institute of the UFPA (Brazil), Number 2.711.799.2. The written informed consent was obtained from each patient. It is committed not to provide information about the patient to any person unrelated to the study.
Author contributions
FESG: proceed laboratory analysis and the production of the manuscript AADF: proceed laboratory analysis and the production of the manuscript. ACGP: contributed substantially to the interpretation of the results and to the production of the manuscript. CAAA: proceed the supervision of fieldwork and the critical reading of the manuscript. TPP: contributed to the laboratory analysis and to the production of the manuscript. JLFV: supervised data collection, data analysis and production of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Disclosure statement
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Health and safety
All mandatory laboratory health and safety procedures were followed in the study.