Krishna, Swathy
Sequeira, Jaison Jeevan
Mustak, Mohammed S.
Das, Ranajit
Funding for this research was provided by:
Yenepoya University (093-2020)
Article History
Received: 12 December 2024
Accepted: 1 June 2025
First Online: 17 June 2025
Declarations
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: Approval was obtained from the Institutional Human Ethical Committee Mangalore University, Mangaluru (MU/AZ/349/IHEC/2014–2015 dated 15/07/2014). The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. The validity period was for three years till July 2017. The samples were collected within the validity period in 2015 and 2016.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.