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Introduction

Methods

Ethics and study design

Participants

Study outcomes

Equipment

Interventions

Statistical analysis

Results

Discussion

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

Clinical Trial Protocol.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13329/supp-1

Consort check list.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13329/supp-2

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Jaya Shanker Tedla conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Erika Rodrigues conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Arthur S. Ferreira conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Jose Vicente analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Ravi Shankar Reddy conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Kumar Gular performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Devika Rani Sangadala performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Venkata Nagaraj Kakaraparthi performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Faisal Asiri analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Ajay Midde performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Snehil Dixit analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The study was approved by the institutional ethical committee (ECM#2019-31) of the Deanship of Scientific Research, King Khalid University.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data is available in the Supplemental File.

Clinical Trial Registration

The following information was supplied regarding Clinical Trial registration:

CTRI/2019/09/021270.

Funding

This research was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research, King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with research grant number RGP.1/52/42. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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