About the Authors

Rita Nyaaba Akologo

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

rita.akologo@uenr.edu.gh

Affiliation Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Isaac Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Dennis Adu-Gyasi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana

Dodzi Kofi Amelor

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Public Health and Reference Laboratory, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Rabbi Coffie Baidoo

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

Affiliation Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Asenso Gideon

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

Affiliation Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Akugre Alfred Akuka

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

Affiliation Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Akua Obeng Forson

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Samuel Fosu Gyasi

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Emmanuel Timmy Donkoh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Research in Applied Biology, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.