About the Authors

Roza Ernest

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

roza.ernest@yahoo.com

Affiliations Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nsiande Lema

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

Affiliation Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Sued Yassin

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

Affiliation Research, Training, and Consultancy Unit, Chato Zonal Referral Hospital, Geita, Tanzania

Agricola Joachim

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mtebe Majigo

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors of this research have explicitly stated that there are no existing conflicts of interest related to the publication of their work.