About the Authors

Richmond Yeboah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Richmond Gorman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Henry Kyeremateng Acheampong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Emmanuella Nyarko-Afriyie

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Sherihane Aryeetey

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Henrietta Dede Tetteh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Owusu

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medical Diagnostics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Eric Smart Yeboah

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Unit, Nyaho Medical Centre, Accra, Ghana

Titus Adade

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Joseph Bonney

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Emergency Medicine Directorate, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Yaw Ampem Amoako

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Philip El-Duah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charite, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kwasi Obiri-Danso

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Christian Drosten

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charite, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Richard Odame Phillips

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Augustina Angelina Sylverken

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

annan@kccr.de

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.