About the Authors

Bakary Sanneh

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

sheikbakary@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Abou Kebbeh

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

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Haruna S. Jallow

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Yaya Camara

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology and disease Control Department, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Lusubilo Witson Mwamakamba

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Inter-country Support Team, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ida Fatou Ceesay

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Ebrima Barrow

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, Banjul, The Gambia

Fatou O. Sowe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Education, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Sana M. Sambou

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology and disease Control Department, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Ignatius Baldeh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu Layout, Kotu, The Gambia

Alpha Jallow

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation World Health Organization, CountryOffice, The Gambia

Matheu Alvarez Jorge Raul

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Food Safety and Zoonoses Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Antoine Andremont

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Paris-Diderot Medical School, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.