About the Authors

Stephen Osei-Wusu

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

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Isaac Darko Otchere

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Portia Morgan

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Abdul Basit Musah

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Ishaque Mintah Siam

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Diana Asandem

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Theophilus Afum

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Prince Asare

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Adwoa Asante-Poku

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Kwadwo Asamoah Kusi

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Sebastien Gagneux

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

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

dyeboah-manu@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Affiliations Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.