Van Ness, Sarah E.
Chandra, Ankit
Sarkar, Sonali
Pleskunas, Jane
Ellner, Jerrold J.
Roy, Gautam
Lakshminarayanan, Subitha
Sahu, Swaroop
Horsburgh, C. Robert Jr
Jenkins, Helen E.
Hochberg, Natasha S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
CRDF Global (USB-31150-XX-13)
National Institutes of Health (NIH-GMS T32GM074905, US NIH K01AI102944)
Article History
Received: 16 March 2017
Accepted: 24 July 2017
First Online: 15 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Boston Medical Center and Rutgers Institutional Review Boards and the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) Ethics Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee. All subjects provided informed consent according to the Indian Council of Medical Research Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Participants and U.S. Code of Federal Regulations applicable to clinical studies.
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