About the Authors

Jennifer Afua Ofori

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Animal Research Institute, Achimota, Ghana

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Soale Majeed Bakari

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Lehrstuhl für Zoologie I—Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie, Würzburg, Germany

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Saikou Bah

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Current address: The University of Sheffield, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Affiliation West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Michael Kojo Kolugu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

George Kwame Aning

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Gordon Akanzuwine Awandare

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Mark Carrington

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Theresa Manful Gwira

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

tmanful@ug.edu.gh

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist