About the Authors

Michael Owusu

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michaelowusu80@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medical Diagnostics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Centre for Health Systems Strengthening, Kumasi, Ghana

Augustina Angelina Sylverken

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Philip El-Duah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charite, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Richmond Yeboah

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Eric Adu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Jesse Asamoah

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Frimpong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Molecular Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Japhet Senyo

Roles Data curation

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

Godfred Acheampong

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Systems Strengthening, Kumasi, Ghana

Mohamed Mutocheluh

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

John Amuasi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global and International Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Ellis Owusu-Dabo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global and International Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Richard Odame Phillips

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.