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  1. Department of Community Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puduchermamil Nadu, India

    D. Kishorkumar, P. Stalin, R. Vishnu Prasad & Zile Singh

  2. School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    J. P. Tripathy, A. Sharma & S. Prinja

  3. Department of Neonatology and Clinical Biochemistry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Vijay Gupta, Victoria Job & Niranjan Thomas

  4. Department of Neonatology, Rainbow Children’s Hospital and Perinatal Centre, Hyderabad, India

    Nalinikant Panigrahy, Poddutoor Preetham Kumar, Dinesh Kumar Chirla & Shivanarayan Reddy Vennapusa

  5. Instituto Federal Goiano–Campus Ceres, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (ESEF/UFRGS), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    M. Noll, P. R. S. Noll, E. M. Santos, A. R. Silva Neto & C. T. Candotti

  6. Department of Neonatology, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India

    Pankaj Kumar Mohanty, Karthik Nagesh N & Abdul Razak

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Kishorkumar, D., Stalin, P., Vishnu Prasad, R. et al. Research letters. Indian Pediatr 53, 165–172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-016-0815-2

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