Khadilkar, Meera Niranjan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2006-8913
Pai, K. Keshava https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0753-9685
Rai, Thripthi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9374-4628
Shenoy, Vijendra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9294-7626
Dosemane, Deviprasad https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6282-0029
Kabekkodu, Sushmitha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-0644
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
Article History
Received: 12 June 2020
Accepted: 10 August 2020
First Online: 17 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. No funding, grant or financial support was obtained.
: The study was approved by Institutional Ethics Committee, KMC Mangalore (IEC KMC MLR 08/18/169) and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. No animals were involved in the study.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.