About the Authors

Linda Afriyie Gyimah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

lindagyimah17@gmail.com

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Reginald Adjetey Annan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Charles Apprey

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Anthony Edusei

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Linda Nana Esi Aduku

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Odeafo Asamoah-Boakye

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Wisdom Azanu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Allied Health Sciences, Ho, Ghana

Herman Lutterodt

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.