About the Authors

Naa Okaikor Addison

Contributed equally to this work with: Naa Okaikor Addison, Stefanie Pfau

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Microbiology, Korle—Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Stefanie Pfau

Contributed equally to this work with: Naa Okaikor Addison, Stefanie Pfau

steffi.pfau@gmail.com

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Eric Koka

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape–Coast, Cape-Coast, Ghana

Samuel Yaw Aboagye

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Grace Kpeli

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Division of Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Gerd Pluschke

Affiliations Division of Molecular Immunology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Thomas Junghanss

Affiliation Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GP DY TJ. Data curation: NA SP. Formal analysis: NA SP. Funding acquisition: GP DY TJ. Investigation: NA SP. Methodology: GP DY TJ. Project administration: GP DY TJ. Resources: EK SA GK DY. Software: NA SP. Supervision: GP DY TJ. Validation: NA SP. Visualization: NA SP. Writing – original draft: NA SP. Writing – review & editing: SA GK GP DY TJ.