About the Authors

Eric Kyei-Baafour

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

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Mavis Oppong

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

Kwadwo Asamoah Kusi

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Abena Fremaah Frempong

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

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Belinda Aculley

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

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Fareed K. N. Arthur

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Regis Wendpayangde Tiendrebeogo

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, and at Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Susheel K. Singh

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, and at Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department for Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michael Theisen

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

Affiliations Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, and at Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department for Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Margaret Kweku

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

Bright Adu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Lars Hviid

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, and at Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michael Fokuo Ofori

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mofori@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.