Bharathi, Geetha
Venugopal, Anila
Vellingiri, Balachandar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Engineering Research Board (ECR/2016/001688)
Article History
Received: 2 November 2018
Accepted: 10 June 2019
First Online: 25 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical clearance for this study was obtained from two institutes—(1) Karpagam Medical College Hospital on 31.03.2017 and (2) K.G. Hospital and Postgraduate Medical Institute on 07.04.2017. Informed written consent was taken from the guardians of the participants after explaining the details of the research.
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