Brown, Kerry Ann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-5336
Venkateshmurthy, Nikhil Srinivasapura http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4037-6371
Potubariki, Gopi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0839-3553
Sharma, Piyu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3582-0100
Cardwell, Jacqueline M.
Prabhakaran, Dorairaj http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-834X
Knai, Cecile
Mohan, Sailesh http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-3596
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (205200/Z/16/Z, 205200/Z/16/Z, 205200/Z/16/Z)
Article History
Received: 16 July 2021
Accepted: 5 April 2022
First Online: 22 April 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Ethics Committee, UK in Sep 2018 (LSHTM ethics reference: 14664) and the institutional ethics committee of the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, India in March 2019 (CCDC reference IEC_02_2019). All methods were carried out in accordance with the guidelines for biomedical and health research by the Indian Council of Medical Research. We obtained written informed consent from all the participants in order to participate in the study.
: We obtained written informed consent from all the participants to publish their images and data in an open-access publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.