About the Authors

Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah

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

d.obiri-yeboah@uccsms.edu.gh, dobiri-yeboah@ucc.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Yaw Asante Awuku

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Joseph Adu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Faustina Pappoe

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Evans Obboh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Paul Nsiah

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Daniel Amoako-Sakyi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Jacques Simpore

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetics (LABIOGENE), University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interest exist.