Sindhu, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan
Ramamurthy, Prashanth
Ramanujam, Karthikeyan
Henry, Ankita
Bondu, Joseph Dian
John, Sushil Mathew
Babji, Sudhir
Koshy, Beena
Bose, Anuradha
Kang, Gagandeep
Mohan, Venkata Raghava
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (KANG09ME0)
Article History
Received: 21 August 2018
Accepted: 22 May 2019
First Online: 6 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study that was approved by the ethics committee of Institutional Review Board (IRB), Christian Medical College, Vellore in India. Approval was also obtained from the Indian government’s Health Ministry Screening Committee. Written informed consent was obtained from the mother/primary caregiver of the study participant.
: Not applicable.
: Venkata Raghava Mohan and Sudhir Babji are Associate Editors for BMC Public Health. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.