About the Authors

Peter G. Mwitari

pmwitari67@yahoo.com

Affiliations Center for Traditional Medicine and Drug Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, PR China

Peter A. Ayeka

Affiliations Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, PR China, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya

Joyce Ondicho

Affiliation Center for Traditional Medicine and Drug Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Esther N. Matu

Affiliation Center for Traditional Medicine and Drug Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Christine C. Bii

Affiliation Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PGM. Performed the experiments: JO. Analyzed the data: PAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ENM CCB. Wrote the paper: PGM.