About the Authors

Mohammed Faruk

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

fmohammed@abu.edu.ng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Sani Ibrahim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Surajo Mohammed Aminu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Ahmed Adamu

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Adamu Abdullahi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, College of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Aishatu Maude Suleiman

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

Affiliation Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Abdulmumini Hassan Rafindadi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Abdullahi Mohammed

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Yawale Iliyasu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

John Idoko

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Rakiya Saidu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Abdullahi Jibril Randawa

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Halimatu Sadiya Musa

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Zaria, Nigeria

Atara Ntekim

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Khalid Zahir Shah

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nova Medical Centre, Lahore, Pakistan

Sani Abubakar

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Aminu Kano University Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

Kasimu Umar Adoke

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria

Muhammad Manko

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Cheh Agustin Awasum

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Zaria, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.