About the Authors

Majidah Hamid-Adiamoh

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

madiamoh@mrc.gm

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) and Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Davis Nwakanma

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Benoit Sessinou Assogba

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Mamadou Ousmane Ndiath

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Umberto D’Alessandro

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Yaw A. Afrane

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) and Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Alfred Amambua-Ngwa

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.