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Acknowledgements
Dr Anand Manoharan, Director Clinical research, CTMRF for aiding us in the project and Dr Aishwarya Venkataraman for helping us conduct the tests.
Footnotes
Ethical clearance
CTMRF-KKCTH Ethics Committee.
Contributors
JS, SB- Conceptualization of the study; MM, JS, KD, SP, SB- Writing the manuscript and review of literature; MM, JS- Statistical analysis. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript
Funding
None
Competing interests
None stated.
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