About the Authors

Endale Tadesse

endaletd@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Million Teshome

Affiliation Gynecology and Obstetrics Unit, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Anteneh Amsalu

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Techalew Shimelis

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ET. Data curation: AA TS. Formal analysis: ET. Funding acquisition: ET TS MT. Investigation: ET. Methodology: ET AA MT. Project administration: ET. Resources: MT. Software: AA. Supervision: TS. Validation: AA. Visualization: ET TS MT. Writing – original draft: ET. Writing – review & editing: ET TS AA MT.