About the Authors

Onyinye J. Okorie-Kanu

Contributed equally to this work with: Onyinye J. Okorie-Kanu, Kennedy F. Chah, Tara C. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

onyinye.okoro@unn.edu.ng

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Madubuike U. Anyanwu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Ekene V. Ezenduka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Anthony C. Mgbeahuruike

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

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Dipendra Thapaliya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Gracen Gerbig

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Ejike E. Ugwuijem

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Christian O. Okorie-Kanu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria

Philip Agbowo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Solomon Olorunleke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

John A. Nwanta

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Kennedy F. Chah

Contributed equally to this work with: Onyinye J. Okorie-Kanu, Kennedy F. Chah, Tara C. Smith

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

Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Tara C. Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Onyinye J. Okorie-Kanu, Kennedy F. Chah, Tara C. Smith

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.