About the Authors

Haileleul Micho

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

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mengistu Fantahun

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Zenebe Gebreyohannes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ashenafi Bedaso

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Neima Bereka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Bethelehem Abebayehu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Asaye Birhanu Mekonnen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Holy Cross Hospital and Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Bineyam Taye

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

Kassu Desta

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Aster Tsegaye

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

tsegayeaster@yahoo.com, aster.tsegaye@aau.edu.et

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.