About the Authors

Wisal A. Elmagzoub

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

Affiliations Unit of Animal Health and Safety of Animal Products, Institute for Studies and Promotion of Animal Exports, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Khartoum North, Sudan, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, College of Applied and Industrial Sciences, University of Bahri, Khartoum North, Sudan

Sanaa M. Idris

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Unit of Animal Health and Safety of Animal Products, Institute for Studies and Promotion of Animal Exports, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Khartoum North, Sudan, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Khartoum North, Sudan

Maha Isameldin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Ibn Sina Specialised Hospital, Mohammed Najeeb St, Khartoum, Sudan

Nassir Arabi

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ibn Sina Specialised Hospital, Mohammed Najeeb St, Khartoum, Sudan, Omdurman Islamic University, Omdurman, Sudan

Abdelmonem Abdo

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation National centre for gastroenterology and liver diseases, Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

Mustafa Ibrahim

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Ibn Sina Specialised Hospital, Mohammed Najeeb St, Khartoum, Sudan

Md Anik Ashfaq Khan

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Franziska Tanneberger

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Sahar M. Bakhiet

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular biology, Institute of Endemic diseases, Khartoum, Sudan

Julius B. Okuni

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Lonzy Ojok

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

Ahmed A. Gameel

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Khartoum North, Sudan

Ahmed Abd El Wahed

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

kamal@uofk.edu (KHE); ahmed.abd_el_wahed@uni-Leipzig.de (AAEW)

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michaël Bekaert

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mohamed E. Mukhtar

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Khartoum, Shambat Khartoum North, Sudan

Ahmad Amanzada

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Kamal H. Eltom

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

kamal@uofk.edu (KHE); ahmed.abd_el_wahed@uni-Leipzig.de (AAEW)

Affiliation Unit of Animal Health and Safety of Animal Products, Institute for Studies and Promotion of Animal Exports, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Khartoum North, Sudan

ElSagad Eltayeb

Contributed equally to this work with: ElSagad Eltayeb

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ibn Sina Specialised Hospital, Mohammed Najeeb St, Khartoum, Sudan, Faculty of Medicine, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan

Competing Interests

All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.