Elango, Padmasini
Nirmal, Christy Rosaline
Rajadas, Sam Ebenezer
Ravi, Rajkumar
Chilamakuru, Naresh Babu
V. N., Azger Dusthackeer
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (Fellowship/Bact/RA/Padmasini/31.10.2022, F.No. 3/1/3/PDF(21)/2019-HRD dt 18.03.2020, No. Fellowship/TB/40/2020-7030)
Article History
Received: 28 March 2025
Accepted: 7 August 2025
First Online: 22 September 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT, Chennai) before its implementation (No: 021/NIRT-IEC/2021; dtd 25/2/2021).This study was also submitted and issued approval from the institutional bioethics committee for Category III as per the guidelines of DBT held at ICMR NIRT, Chennai, on 06/10/2021.
: The authors declare no competing interests.