Das, Manoja Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8559-5837
Arora, Narendra Kumar
Mathai, John
Sam, Cenita J.
G., Rajamani
R., Krishnaswamy
K., Jothilakshmi
Arunachalam, Pavai
Gupta, Bini
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1116433)
Article History
Received: 24 November 2020
Accepted: 13 April 2021
First Online: 31 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by INCLEN Ethics Committee (Ref: IIEC 23), Institutional Human Ethics Committee, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore (Ref: /295); Ethics Committee, Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore (Ref: /7/2016); Institutional Ethics Committee, Masonic Medical Centre for Children, Coimbatore (Ref: /4/2016) and Institutional Ethics Committee, GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore (Ref: /2016). The information about the children were collected after obtaining written informed consent.
: None.
: The surveillance at one hospital was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA to The INCLEN Trust International (grant number OPP1116433). The funder or its representative had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation and writing of the manuscript.