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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Science, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vineeta Gupta, Akash Kumar & Ravi K. Asthana

  2. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vineeta Gupta, Akash Kumar & Ravi K. Asthana

  3. Department of Human Physiology, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, 799 130, Tripura, India

    Sandeep Roy Sarkar, S. Saha, S. Roy & S. K. Sil

  4. Department of Pediatrics, UCMS and GTB Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, 110 095, India

    Skand Shekhar & Dheeraj Shah

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Gupta, V., Kumar, A., Asthana, R.K. et al. Research letters. Indian Pediatr 49, 493–497 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-012-0072-y

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