About the Authors

Cheikh Cambel Dieng

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

el855@drexel.edu (EL); cd3424@drexel.edu (CCD)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rene Teh Ning

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Canelle Kipayko

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Regan Elizabeth Schroeder

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nontokozo Mdluli-Berndt

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bate Ayukenchengamba

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Zidedine Nematchoua Weyou

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Tabi Doris Sona

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Ambendekson Elizabeth Reward

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Guofa Zhou

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, School of Public Health, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Irene Sumbele Ngole Ule

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Helen Kuokuo Kimbi

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Animal Biology and Conservation (ABC), Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bamenda, Bamenda, Bambili, Cameroon

Eugenia Lo

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

el855@drexel.edu (EL); cd3424@drexel.edu (CCD)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.