About the Authors

Biruktawit Kebede

bruktawit.kebede@ju.edu.et

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Temam Kemal

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Solomon Abera

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Pathology, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK TK SA. Performed the experiments: BK TK. Analyzed the data: BK SA. Wrote the paper: BK TK SA.