Manandhar, Sarita
Singh, Anjana
Varma, Ajit
Pandey, Shanti
Shrivastava, Neeraj
Article History
Received: 21 June 2021
Accepted: 12 April 2022
First Online: 21 April 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval (Ref No. 875) was obtained from Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal before conducting the research. The study protocol was verified by Institutional Review Committee (IRC) of B & B hospital, Gwarko and Kathmandu Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Medical College and teaching hospital, Imadol where the samples were collected from the patients for the standard care. Informed written consent to use the samples was obtained from each patient in this study. All the methods were carried out in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.