Aggarwal, Sumit
Kumar, Arun
Deo, Vishal
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Barman, Bhupen
Kulkarni, Bipin P.
Mohapatra, Chandan Kumar Ray
Kulkarni, Girish Baburao
Hemachandren, M.
Tiewsoh, Iadarilang
Gnanaraj, Justin Paul
Vishwanathan, Karthik
Kumar, Narendra
Bhatia, Vikas
Yadav, Rakesh
Lakshmi, K. Sree
Qadri, Syed Mudasir
Tabassum, Heena
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi (Grant No. i-RegVeD/Site10/BMS-2022)
Article History
Received: 4 February 2025
Accepted: 16 June 2025
First Online: 2 July 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Approval for this study was given by the Institutional Ethics Committee with IEC no. NCDIR/BEU/ICMR-CECHR/75/2020 [Reference Number: CECHR 003/2022 dated 24th March 2022] and all participants were included in accordance with Declaration of Helsinki.
: All study participants were recruited after written informed consent, in accordance with the ethics guidelines of the respective ethics committees at each participating site.