Shah, Anjali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1343-177X
Kumar, Chandan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7164-3105
Shanmukhaiah, Chandrakala
Rajendran, Aruna
Mudaliar, Sangeeta
Idicula-Thomas, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3766-6757
Vundinti, Babu Rao https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-2691
Article History
Received: 1 May 2023
Accepted: 29 June 2023
First Online: 13 July 2023
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the “Institutional Ethics Committee on human subjects” of ICMR-National Institute of Immunohaematology (Ethics approval number: NIIH/IEC/22-2019). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were as per the ethical standards of the institutional review board of the institute and with the 1964 declaration of Helsinki (DoH) and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants or if participants are under 16, from a parent and/or legal guardian.
: We obtained written informed consent to identify images or other personal or clinical details from all the participants. In the case of a minor, we obtained written informed consent for publications identifying pictures or additional clinical information from the parents or legal guardians.
: The authors have no competing interests.