Paul, Sangita
Karmakar, Bipul Chandra
Roy, Nirupam
Chaudhuri, Sujit
Mukhopadhyay, Asish Kumar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (09/482(0065)/2017-EMR-I)
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/3/8/36/ITR-F/2020)
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2014/IF140909)
University Grants Commission (201610173886)
Article History
Received: 3 January 2025
Accepted: 19 August 2025
First Online: 25 September 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED) Ethical committee, Manipal Hospitals (formerly AMRI Hospital) committee [Ref: AMRI -EC/AP-49/2019-20] and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent for publication of their clinical details, that their samples were obtained solely for research purpose, was obtained from the patient/parent/guardian/relative of the patient. A copy of the consent form is available for review by the Editor of this journal.
: Asish Kumar Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Editor for Gut Pathogens and was not involved in the peer review of this paper. The authors declare that they have no other competing interests.