About the Authors

Joseph P. Essien

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

jomato652011@yahoo.com (JPE); nbenson@covenantuniversity.edu.ng (NUB)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria

Donald I. Ikpe

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

Affiliation Department of Science Technology, Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria

Edu D. Inam

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

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria

Aniefiokmkpong O. Okon

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria

Godwin A. Ebong

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria

Nsikak U. Benson

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

jomato652011@yahoo.com (JPE); nbenson@covenantuniversity.edu.ng (NUB)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.