About the Authors

Aziz Zafar

Contributed equally to this work with: Aziz Zafar, Ziad Attia

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

Affiliations Colgate University, Department of Mathematics, Hamilton, New York, United States of America, Colgate University, Department of Biology, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

Ziad Attia

Contributed equally to this work with: Aziz Zafar, Ziad Attia

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Colgate University, Department of Mathematics, Hamilton, New York, United States of America, Colgate University, Department of Computer Science, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

Mehret Tesfaye

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sosina Walelign

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Moges Wordofa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dessie Abera

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kassu Desta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Aster Tsegaye

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ahmet Ay

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

aay@colgate.edu (AA); btaye@colgate.edu (BT)

Affiliations Colgate University, Department of Mathematics, Hamilton, New York, United States of America, Colgate University, Department of Biology, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

Bineyam Taye

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

aay@colgate.edu (AA); btaye@colgate.edu (BT)

Affiliation Colgate University, Department of Biology, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.