Kalaiyarasan, Gopi
Raju, Chikkili Venkateswara
Veerapandian, Murugan
Kumar, Shanmugam Senthil
Joseph, James
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Engineering Research Board (EMR/2017/004449)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2019
Revised: 13 November 2019
Accepted: 26 November 2019
First Online: 14 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: This study involves the use of human serum samples collected at the CSIR-CECRI Health Center, Karaikudi, from different patient volunteers. Verbal consents of all volunteers were obtained by a clinician (Dr. Raja Vijayakumar, MBBS, Full-Time Medical Officer, CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi) and a medical lab technician (Mr. R. Venkatesh, B.Sc., CMLT (Certificate Course in Medical Laboratory Technology)). Serum samples were exclusively used for validation of the developed method. The study was performed with prior approval of head of the institution, CSIR-CECRI, as per ethical standards.