The upper respiratory tract microbiome of indigenous Orang Asli in north-eastern Peninsular Malaysia

Accepted/In Press date: 24 November 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 5 January 2021

Published date: 5 January 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: Ethical approval for this study was provided by Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) Ethics Committee: approval no. UniSZA/C/1/UHREC/628–1 (85) dated 27 June 2016, the Department of Orang Asli Affairs and Development (JAKOA): approval no. JAKOA/PP.30.052Jld11 (42), and by the University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee (Submission ID: 20831). Informed consent was taken for all participants, with parents/guardians providing consent for those <17 years old. Participation in the study involved reading (or being read) and understanding the Malay-translated participant information sheet, and the completion of a consent form and questionnaire. These documents were translated into Malay by A.S.M.H and A.R from the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin who are familiar with the Orang Asli and have on-going social sciences-based research with them, and by M.A.R and C.C.Y from the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, who are proficient in Malay and who ensured that the appropriate research and clinical context was preserved in the translated documents. The information sheet includes guidelines about the confidentiality and anonymity of the data obtained. This process was facilitated by native-speaking research assistants from the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, who underwent prior training on how to administer the questionnaires for the purpose of this study. Funding Information: The laboratory microbiology work was funded by a grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Newton Fund Official Development Assistance (ODA) fund. The microbiome sequencing was funded through a uBiome Inc. Microbiome Grants Initiative award. We would like to thank the Department of Orang Asli Affairs and Development (JAKOA), Additionally, the authors would especially like to thank the communities of Kampung Sungai Pergam and Kampung Berua for their support and participation in this study. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).

Local EPrints ID: 445657

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/445657

DOI: doi:10.1038/s41522-020-00173-5

PURE UUID: 3edc4f5a-f531-465f-a2d3-44d2f76c56aa

ORCID for David Cleary: orcid.org/0000-0003-4533-0700

ORCID for Stuart Clarke: orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-1548

Date deposited: 05 Jan 2021 17:32

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