Low, Ee Vien http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8596-1318
Teh, Hoon Shien http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4117-5494
Hing, Nicholas Yee Liang http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4530-8466
Chidambaram, Suresh Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9853-0373
Pathmanathan, Mohan Dass http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8385-0315
Kim, Wee Ric http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1912-2940
Lee, Wei Jia http://orcid.org/0009-0008-4062-5829
Teh, Zhi Wei
Appannan, Maheshwara Rao
Zin, Shahanizan Mohd
Zin, Faizah Muhamad
Amin, Samha Bashirah Mohamed
Ismail, Mastura
Samad, Azah Abdul
M. Peariasamy, Kalaiarasu http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9279-3498
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (NIH/800-3/2/2 Jilid 13 (182))
Article History
Accepted: 23 April 2024
First Online: 10 May 2024
Declarations
:
: This study was funded by the Ministry of Health Malaysia Research Grant for Communicable Diseases (NIH/800-3/2/2 Jilid 13 (182)). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study or the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
: The data that support the findings of this study are available upon reasonable request, and with protocol approved by the Medical Research and Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health Malaysia.
: This study was registered in the National Medical Research Register and approved by the Medical Research and Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health Malaysia (NMRR ID-22-00938-2YN), Oct 21, 2022.
: Conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, and investigation: Ee Vien Low, Hoon Shien Teh, Nicholas Yee Liang Hing. Writing – original draft preparation: Ee Vien Low, Hoon Shien Teh, Nicholas Yee Liang Hing. Writing – review and editing: All authors; Funding acquisition: Ee Vien Low. Resources: Kalaiarasu M. Peariasamy, Shahanizan Mohd Zin, Faizah Muhamad Zin, Maheshwara Rao Appannan, Samha Bashirah Mohamed Amin. Supervision: Kalaiarasu M. Peariasamy. All authors had full access to all data in the studies and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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