Gai, Prabhanjan P.
van Loon, Welmoed
Siegert, Konrad
Wedam, Jakob
Kulkarni, Suyamindra S.
Rasalkar, Rashmi
Boloor, Archith
Kumar, Arun
Jain, Animesh
Mahabala, Chakrapani
Baliga, Shantaram
Devi, Rajeshwari
Shenoy, Damodara
Gai, Pramod
Mockenhaupt, Frank P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GRK 1673, GRK 2046)
Sonnenfeld Stiftung
Article History
Received: 2 April 2019
Accepted: 16 September 2019
First Online: 24 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal University (IEC KMC MLR 05-1598), and informed written consent was obtained by all study patients. Permission to conduct the study was granted by the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services, Government of Karnataka.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.