About the Authors

Francis Gakuya

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Gakuya, James Akoko

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Naivasha, Kenya

James Akoko

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Gakuya, James Akoko

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

jamesakoko@yahoo.com

Affiliations International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Biomedical Science, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya

Lillian Wambua

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Richard Nyamota

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Bernard Ronoh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Kenya

Isaac Lekolool

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Kenya

Athman Mwatondo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Zoonotic Disease Unit, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Mathew Muturi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Zoonotic Disease Unit, Nairobi, Kenya, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Collins Ouma

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya

Daniel Nthiwa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya

Earl Middlebrook

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, United States of America

Jeanne Fair

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, United States of America

John Gachohi

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Washington State University, Global Health Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, School of Public Health, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Kariuki Njenga

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Washington State University, Global Health Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Bernard Bett

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.