About the Authors

Gebrekrustos Mekonnen

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

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Samara University, Afar, Ethiopia

Elmi Fahiye Mohammed

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

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia, IGAD Sheikh Technical Veterinary School (ISTVS), Nairobi, Kenya

Weldu Kidane

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Awol Nesibu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Hagos Yohannes

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Nick Van Reet

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalesstraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Philippe Büscher

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalesstraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Hadush Birhanu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hadushbirhanu@yahoo.com

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.