About the Authors

Alene Geteneh

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

aleneget@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Tesfaye Kassa

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Yared Alemu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Derbie Alemu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arba Minch College of Health Science, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Mulugeta Kiros

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

Henok Andualem

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Science, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia

Workeabeba Abebe

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tinsae Alemayehu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dawit Hailu Alemayehu

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armauer Hanson Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Adane Mihret

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armauer Hanson Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Andargachew Mulu

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armauer Hanson Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Wude Mihret

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armauer Hanson Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

on behalf of the co-authors, we declare that no conflict of interest