About the Authors

Jonathan Akwasi Adusei

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Patrick Williams Narkwa

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Owusu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Seth Agyei Domfeh

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Mahmood Alhassan

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Emmanuel Appau

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Alimatu Salam

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

Affiliation Manhyia District Hospital, Manhyia, Kumasi, Ghana

Mohamed Mutocheluh

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

mmutocheluh.chs@knust.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST Main Campus, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.