About the Authors

Henry Dilonga Meriki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, South West Region, Cameroon, Buea Regional Hospital, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon, Department of Public health and Hygiene, Faculty of Health science, University of Buea, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon

Kukwah Anthony Tufon

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

drkapt@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, South West Region, Cameroon, Buea Regional Hospital, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon

Damian Nota Anong

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, University of Bamenda, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon

Nyeke James Tony

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, South West Region, Cameroon

Tebit Emmanuel Kwenti

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, South West Region, Cameroon, Buea Regional Hospital, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon, Department of Public health and Hygiene, Faculty of Health science, University of Buea, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health science, University of Buea, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon

Ayah Flora Bolimo

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Buea Regional Hospital, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon

Youmbi Sylvain Kouanou

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Buea Regional Hospital, Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon

Theresa Nkuo-Akenji

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, University of Bamenda, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.