About the Authors

Linda Batsa Debrah

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

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Aliyu Mohammed

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

Affiliation School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Jubin Osei-Mensah

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Yusif Mubarik

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Olivia Agbenyega

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Kenneth Pfarr

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner-site Bonn-Cologne, Germany

Janina Melanie Kuehlwein

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ute Klarmann-Schulz

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

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner-site Bonn-Cologne, Germany

Achim Hoerauf

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

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner-site Bonn-Cologne, Germany

Alexander Yaw Debrah

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

yadebrah@yahoo.com

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.