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Accepted: 23 June 2024

First Online: 9 July 2024

Declarations

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: This work was supported and funded by the Life Sciences Research Board of the Defence Research & Development Organisation, Government of India (DG (TM)/81/48222/LSRB-301/BTB/2017).

: Sushmita Singha, Neena Nath, Vaishali Sarma , Kangkana Barman, Gurumayum Chourajit Sharma, Lahari Saikia and Shashi Baruah have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

: Ethics approval of the study was obtained from both the Institutional Ethics Committee of Tezpur Medical College and Hospital and Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, India vide letter no. 18/IEC/TMCH, 127/2022/TMC&H and 190/2007/pt-11/MAR-19, respectively. The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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: All data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper and its supplementary information.

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: SS: experimentation and computational data acquisition and analysis, writing the original draft. NN: clinical collaborator, review of the manuscript. VS: clinical investigation. KB: performed ELISA. GCS: performed ELISA. LS: clinical collaborator. SB: conceptualization, study design, data analysis and interpretation, and critical review of the manuscript.