About the Authors

Dessie Abera

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

dessabera@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ayinalem Alemu

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

Affiliations Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopoia

Adane Mihret

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abel Abera Negash

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Woldaregay Erku Abegaz

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ken Cadwell

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: K.C. has received research support and/or consulting fees from Pfizer, Takeda, Pacific Biosciences, Vedanta, Genentech, and Abbvie. The authors would like to declare the following patents/patent applications associated with this research: U.S. patent 10,722,600 and provisional patent 62/935,035 and 63/157,225. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.