Bhat, Gh. Rasool
Bhat, Amrita
Verma, Sonali
Sethi, Itty
Shah, Ruchi
Sharma, Varun
Dar, Khursheed A.
Abrol, Deepak
Kaneez, Subiya
Kaul, Sandeep
Ganju, Ramesh
Kumar, Rakesh
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology (DST/SSTP/J&K/459)
Article History
Received: 20 July 2018
Accepted: 8 May 2019
First Online: 24 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Review board (IERB) of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) vide IERB Serial No: SMVDU/IERB/16/41 and SMVDU/IERB/16/47. The consent form was designed in three languages (English, Hindi, Urdu) and an informed and written consent was taken from patient and control before the sample collection.
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