Sethu Nagarajan, Rathinavel https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4699-1477
Balaji, Sekaran
Kim, Usha
Shanthi, Radhakrishnan
Chidambaranathan, Gowri Priya
Obula Giridhara Gopalan, Ramprasad
Vanniarajan, Ayyasamy
Article History
Received: 14 October 2025
Accepted: 13 January 2026
First Online: 9 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was approved by Institutional Ethics Committee (IRB2017009BAS) and followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All samples were collected with the informed consent from patient’s parents/legally authorized persons.