About the Authors

Letebrhan Weldemhret

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

letinaweldemhret@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Ataklti Hailu

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

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Goyitom Gebremedhn

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

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Hadish Bekuretsion

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Gebreselassie Alemseged

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Gebremicheal Gebreegziabher

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Gebrhiwot Tesfahuney

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Tesfaye Berhe

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Challenge TB, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Lemlem Legesse

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Kelali Kalayu

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Mesfin Tesfay

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Kibrti Mehari

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.