About the Authors

Assefa Belay

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Dessie Health Science College, Dessie, Ethiopia

Melaku Ashagrie

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Science, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

Berhanu Seyoum

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mekuanent Alemu

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Dessie Health Science College, Dessie, Ethiopia

Aster Tsegaye

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, 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.