About the Authors

Araya Gebreyesus Wasihun

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

araya13e25@gmail.com

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia

Tsehaye Asmelash Dejene

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia, College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology, Axum University, Tigray, Ethiopia

Mekonen Teferi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Department of Biology, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia

Javier Marugán

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

Letemichal Negash

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia

Dejen Yemane

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia

Kevin G. McGuigan

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

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, RCSI, Dublin 2, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.