Sayeed, Muneeba Ahsan
Farooqi, Joveria
Jabeen, Kausar
Awan, Safia
Mahmood, Syed Faisal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-7659
Article History
Received: 22 November 2018
Accepted: 17 April 2019
First Online: 6 May 2019
Authors’ information
: Syed Faisal Mahmood, M.B.B.S, DABIM, DABIM (ID), Associate Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.Muneeba Ahsan Sayeed, M.B.B.S, FCPS (Medicine), FCPS (ID), ID Fellow, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.Joveria Farooqi, M.B.B.S, FCPS (Microbiologist), MSc (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Assistant Professor, Section of Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.Kausar Jabeen, M.B.B.S, FCPS (Microbiologist), MSc (Medical Mycology), Associate Professor, Section of Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.Safia Awan, MSc Statistics, Senior Instructor Research, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
: We sought ethical approval from Aga Khan University’s Ethics Review Committee (ERC number 4381-MED-ERC-2016). The committee waived the requirement for informed consent. To preserve confidentiality, we coded each patient and removed their original identifications.
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