About the Authors

Bethel Kwansa-Bentum

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Beatrice Awuradwoa Okine

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

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Alberta D. Dayie

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

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Patience B. Tetteh-Quarcoo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Fleischer C. N. Kotey

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Eric S. Donkor

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ntkddayie@ug.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.