About the Authors

Nsoh Godwin Anabire

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, amale- Ghana

Paul Armah Aryee

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

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale- Ghana

Abass Abdul-Karim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Zonal Public Health Laboratory, Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale- Ghana

Osbourne Quaye

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

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana

Gordon Akanzuwine Awandare

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana

Gideon Kofi Helegbe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

ghelegbe@uds.edu.gh

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, Legon- Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, amale- Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.