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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the mothers and their infants for their valuable contribution to the study. We would like to particularly thank Mr. Annai Gunasekaran for contacting and following-up the mothers.

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  1. Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, Santhosh Kumar Ganesan, Chanduni Syed & Gagandeep Kang

  2. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Joseph Dian Bondu

  3. Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632002, India

    Venkata Raghava Mohan

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The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Christian Medical College, Vellore. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Sindhu, K.N., Bondu, J.D., Ganesan, S.K. et al. Blood Lead Levels in Mother-Infant Pairs. Indian J Pediatr 85, 1143–1144 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-018-2749-2

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