Matcha, Saikumar
Dilli Batcha, Jaya Shree
Raju, Arun Prasath
Chaudhari, Bhim Bahadur
Moorkoth, Sudheer
Mallayasamy, Surulivelrajan
Lewis, Leslie E.
Article History
Received: 8 August 2024
Revised: 16 January 2025
Accepted: 2 February 2025
First Online: 10 April 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The prospective longitudinal observational study was approved by Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital Institutional Ethics Committee, Manipal, India. (IEC- 558/2019). We confirm that 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.
: Neonates were recruited into the study after obtaining consent from them.