About the Authors

Abdullahi Muhammad

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

abdullahi.muhammad@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliations Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Liverpool, United Kingdom, Centre for Biotechnology Research, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria

Sulaiman S. Ibrahim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Biochemistry, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, LSTM Research Unit, Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon

Muhammad M. Mukhtar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria

Helen Irving

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Liverpool, United Kingdom

Maduamaka C. Abajue

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

Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Noutcha M. A. Edith

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Sabitu S. Da’u

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Science, School of Continuing Education, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria

Mark J. I. Paine

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Liverpool, United Kingdom

Charles S. Wondji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vector Biology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Liverpool, United Kingdom, LSTM Research Unit, Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.