Fakhruddin, Kausar Sadia
Egusa, Hiroshi
Ngo, Hien Chi
Panduwawala, Chamila
Pesee, Siripen
Venkatachalam, Thenmozhi
Samaranayake, Lakshman Perera
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Sharjah (OBHD/2018a)
Article History
Received: 22 October 2019
Accepted: 30 March 2020
First Online: 15 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study was conducted under a protocol approved by the Research Ethics Committee, University of Sharjah (REC-18-02-18-03). We obtained written informed consent at recruitment and before sample collection from the parents/guardians of child participants. All samples taken from patients were obtained as part of standard care and all tests ran on them were also part of the standard care procedure.
: Not applicable.
: Contributing authors declared no competing interests.