About the Authors

Mabel Kamweli Aworh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

mabelaworh@yahoo.com

Current address: Visiting Scholar, Department of Population Health & Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Abuja, Nigeria, Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme, Abuja, Nigeria, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Jacob Kwaga

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob Kwaga, Emmanuel Okolocha, Siddhartha Thakur

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Emmanuel Okolocha

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob Kwaga, Emmanuel Okolocha, Siddhartha Thakur

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Nwando Mba

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory, Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Siddhartha Thakur

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob Kwaga, Emmanuel Okolocha, Siddhartha Thakur

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.