Naz, Aliya https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-7933
Chowdhury, Abhiroop https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6985-0722
Chandra, Rachna
Mishra, Brijesh Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4451-1924
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Human Resource Development (2013DR0064)
Article History
Received: 7 September 2019
Accepted: 22 May 2020
First Online: 3 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: NA, the first author, has taken major role in sample collection, analysis, health risk assessment and interpretation of data, as well as drafting of manuscript. CA, the second and corresponding author, has taken major part in experiment, sampling design, design of research objectives, sample collection, analysis of samples, interpretation of results and contributed in drafting of manuscript. CA, has equal contribution to the first author. CR, has substantially contributed in improvement of the final manuscript by providing invaluable technical comments and suggestions. MBK, Research Guide of first author (NA), and taken a supervisory role in controlling the quality of laboratory analysis, providing laboratory facilities and instrumental in technical improvement of manuscript.