Mudduwa, Lakmini
Peiris, Harshini
Gunasekara, Shania
Abeysiriwardhana, Deepthika
Liyanage, Nimsha
Rayala, Suresh K.
Liyanage, Thusharie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science, Technology and Research, Sri Lanka (grant MTR/TRD/AGR/3/1/9)
Article History
Received: 31 July 2017
Accepted: 8 May 2018
First Online: 24 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research project was granted approval from the Ethical Review Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka, before the commencement of the study (Reference No. 05.02.2013: 3.2). Patients who gave informed written consent were enrolled to the study.
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