About the Authors

Aminu Abba Yusuf

Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

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

aayusuf.hae@buk.edu.ng

Affiliation Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

Baba Maiyaki Musa

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria, Africa Center of Excellence for Population Health and Policy

Najibah Aliyu Galadanci

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Musa Babashani

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

Aminu Zakari Mohammed

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

Donna J. Ingles

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Agnes B. Fogo

Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

C. William Wester

Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

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

Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Muktar Hassan Aliyu

Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

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

Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.