About the Authors

Yaw Ampem Amoako

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

yamoako2002@gmail.com

Affiliations Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Richard Odame Phillips

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

Affiliations Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Joshua Arthur

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Mark Ayaaba Abugri

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation East Mamprusi District Health Directorate, Gambaga, Ghana

Emmanuel Akowuah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Kwabena Oppong Amoako

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Benjamin Aboagye Marfo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Michael Frimpong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Tjip van der Werf

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Medical Center, Groningen, Netherlands

Sofanne Jacobine Ravensbergen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University Medical Center, Groningen, Netherlands

Ymkje Stienstra

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Medical Center, Groningen, Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.