Sethuramalingam, Sujitha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3825-3711
Mohapatra, Sonali
Agarwal, Praveen Kumar
Kumar-M, Praveen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9318-1167
Hota, Debasish https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7339-1773
Gopal, Janhavi
Kulkarni, Aishwarya
Srinivasan, Anand https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-0922
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research
Article History
Received: 8 February 2025
Accepted: 11 June 2026
First Online: 17 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The trial commenced after the approval of the Institutional Ethics Committee of AIIMS Bhubaneswar (IEC Reference Number: EC/AIIMS BBSR/PG Thesis/2018–19/31, Date of approval: December 20, 2018). Informed consent was obtained from every participant (parent or guardian for minors) before they were enrolled in the research. The research was done with ethical standards in accordance with the ‘Declaration of Helsinki’. ‘National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human Participants (2017)’ by the Indian Council of Medical Research was implemented while conducting research.
Competing interests: The support and logistics of the study were provided by Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. Dr.Praveen Kumar Agarwal, Ms. Janhavi Gopal, and Ms. Aishwarya Kulkarni are employed by Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.