About the Authors

Ndong Ignatius Cheng

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

Ncheng@noguchi.ug.edu.gh, ndongicheng@yahoo.com (NIC); cahorlu@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (CSA)

Affiliations Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry, Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong

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

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Palmer Masumbe Netongo

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

Affiliations Navajo Technical University Crownpoint, Crownpoint, New Mexico, United States of America, Molecular Diagnostics Research Group, Biotechnology Center, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon

Benedicta Ayiedu Mensah

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

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

Chuo Ennestine Chu

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

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

Effah-Baafi Yaw

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

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

Juliana Yartey Enos

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

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

Keziah Malm

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

Affiliation Ghana National Malaria Control Programme, Accra, Ghana

Collins Stephen Ahorlu

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

Ncheng@noguchi.ug.edu.gh, ndongicheng@yahoo.com (NIC); cahorlu@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (CSA)

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry, Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.