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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

    Mahuya Pal Chattopadhyay

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

    Ashish Pradhan & Sudip Datta

  3. Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and JNM Hospital, The West Bengal University of Health Sciences, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

    Ritesh Singh

  4. Department of Pediatrics GMCH, Chandigarh, India

    Poonam Marwah, Deepak Chawla & Vishal Guglani

  5. BPS GMC for women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana, India

    Ashish Marwah

  6. Department of Microbiology, GMCH, Chandigarh, India

    Jagdish Chander

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Chattopadhyay, M.P., Pradhan, A., Singh, R. et al. Research letters. Indian Pediatr 52, 157–159 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-015-0594-1

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