About the Authors

Makka Adam Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Makka Adam Ali, Ermias Sissay Balcha

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

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Yirgalem Hospital Medical College, Yirgalem, Ethiopia

Ermias Sissay Balcha

Contributed equally to this work with: Makka Adam Ali, Ermias Sissay Balcha

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

ermisislund@gmail.com

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Lopisso Dessalegn Tirore

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Yirgalem Hospital Medical College, Yirgalem, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.