Parmin, Nor A.
Hashim, Uda
Gopinath, Subash C. B.
Nadzirah, Sharipah
Rejali, Zulida
Afzan, Amilia
Uda, M. N. A.
Hong, V. C.
Rajapaksha, R. D. A. A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Higher Education (FRGS/2/2014/TK03/UNIMAP/01/1.)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2018
Accepted: 14 April 2019
First Online: 8 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
: All samples were obtained with the permission from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Health Centre and acquired with consent from patients who were informed about the research purposes, and this consent procedure was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee for the University Health Centre, UniMAP. The above-mentioned ethics committee specifically approved this study, which was conducted in accordance with the International Conference on Harmonisation–Good Clinical Practice (ICH–GCP) guidelines and the Declaration of Helsinki.