About the Authors

Fred A. Ashu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Caroline Fouet

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Marilene M. Ambadiang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Véronique Penlap-Beng

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Colince Kamdem

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

gckamdemdjo@utep.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.