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Authors
Panda, Sudhasini
Faisal, Shah
Kumar, Krishna
Seelan, Diravya M.
Sharma, Alpana
Gupta, Neeraj Kumar
Datta, Sudip
Singh, Archana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3615-4250
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (A-409)
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Article History
Received: 4 September 2020
Accepted: 8 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare no potential conflict of interests.
: 50 PTB patients, 50 household contacts and 50 healthy controls were recruited from North Indian population for the study. Informed consent was obtained from all individuals participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of data.
: The study was conducted adopting the ethical principles stated in the latest version of Helsinki Declaration as well as the applicable guidelines for good clinical practice (GCP). Ethical approval was obtained from Institutional Ethics Committee of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and V.M.M.C & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi (Ref NO: IEC/640.22.12.2016 and IEC/SH/VMMC/Project/Feb-2017/).
