Aggarwal, Nishant
Singh, Alka
Agarwal, Ashish
Dwarakanathan, Vignesh
Verma, Anil K.
Amarchand, Ritvik
Prakash, Shyam
Krishnan, Anand
Sreenivas, Vishnubhatla
Shalimar,
Ahuja, Vineet
Makharia, Govind K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2474-2194
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research
Article History
Received: 31 March 2020
Accepted: 1 September 2020
First Online: 24 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics committee (IEC reference no. IEC/NP-45/2011) and an informed and written consent was taken from each participant.
: NA, AS, AA, VD, AKV, RA, SP, AK, VS, S, VA, and GKV declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was performed conforming to the Helsinki declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008 concerning human and animal rights, and the authors followed the policy concerning informed consent as shown on Springer.com.
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