About the Authors

Ernest O. Mensah

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Moses K. Aikins

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Margaret Gyapong

Affiliations School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Dodowa Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Dodowa, Ghana

Francis Anto

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Moses J. Bockarie

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

John O. Gyapong

jgyapong@ug.edu.gh

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exits.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JOG MJB EOM MKA. Performed the experiments: EOM FA. Analyzed the data: EOM MKA MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKA MG. Wrote the paper: EOM MKA MG FA MJB JOG. Final editing of manuscript: EOM JOG.