About the Authors

Cajetan C. Onyedum

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria

Isaac Alobu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja

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

ukwajakingsley@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.