About the Authors

Onyeka S. Chukwudozie

Contributed equally to this work with: Onyeka S. Chukwudozie, Clive M. Gray, Victor O. Oyebanji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Solomononyeka84@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Clive M. Gray

Contributed equally to this work with: Onyeka S. Chukwudozie, Clive M. Gray, Victor O. Oyebanji

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Tawakalt A. Fagbayi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Rebecca C. Chukwuanukwu

Roles Methodology, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Immunology Unit, Medical Laboratory Science Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi, Nigeria

Victor O. Oyebanji

Contributed equally to this work with: Onyeka S. Chukwudozie, Clive M. Gray, Victor O. Oyebanji

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Taiwo T. Bankole

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Richard A. Adewole

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Eze M. Daniel

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Public Health Biotechnology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.