About the Authors

Evans K. Ahortor

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

ahortorek@gmail.com (EKA); aablordey@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (AA)

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Theresa Manful Gwira

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology & West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, School of Biological Sciences, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Samiratu Mahazu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Astrid C. Erber

Contributed equally to this work with: Astrid C. Erber, Anthony Ablordey

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anthony Ablordey

Contributed equally to this work with: Astrid C. Erber, Anthony Ablordey

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ahortorek@gmail.com (EKA); aablordey@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (AA)

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.