About the Authors

Samuel Asamoah Sakyi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

samasamoahsakyi@yahoo.co.uk

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

Edwin Ferguson Laing

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Richard Mantey

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

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

Alexander Kwarteng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Eddie-Williams Owiredu

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

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

Richard Ephraim Dadzie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Benjamin Amoani

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Stephen Opoku

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Bright Oppong Afranie

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Daniel Boakye

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIP-S), Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.