About the Authors

Keren Attiku

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

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Joseph Bonney

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

kbonney@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (JB); oquaye@ug.edu.gh (OQ)

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Esinam Agbosu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Evelyn Bonney

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Peter Puplampu

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

Affiliation Fevers Unit, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Vincent Ganu

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

Affiliation Fevers Unit, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

John Odoom

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

James Aboagye

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

John Mensah

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

Affiliation Fevers Unit, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Seth Agyemang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Fevers Unit, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Yaw Awuku-Larbi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Augustina Arjarquah

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

Affiliations West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Gifty Mawuli

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

Affiliation Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Osbourne Quaye

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

kbonney@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (JB); oquaye@ug.edu.gh (OQ)

Affiliation West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.