Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (3/1/3/WL/JRF-2011/HRD-129 (41937))
Article History
Received: 30 March 2020
Accepted: 19 July 2020
First Online: 26 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All the isolates used in this study were collected following guidelines of Institutional Clinical Research Ethics Committee (Ref. No. CREC-STM/260 dated 9/1/2013).
: Clinical isolates were collected after having written consent from patients willing to participate<b>.</b>