About the Authors

Samuel Kwasi Appiah

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

appiahs30@yahoo.com

Affiliations Faculty of Health Science and Technology, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Department of Haematology, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Charles Nkansah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Health Science and Technology, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Department of Haematology, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Gabriel Abbam

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Haematology, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Felix Osei-Boakye

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

Affiliation Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Sunyani Technical University, Sunyani, Ghana

Kofi Mensah

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Health Science and Technology, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Department of Haematology, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Simon Bannison Bani

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Solomon Chemogo

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

Affiliation Paediatric Unit, Methodist Hospital Wenchi, Wenchi, Bono Region, Ghana

Lydia Sarpong

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Takyi Godfred Addae

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Daniel Boamah Sefa

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Richard Adu Croffien

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Larry Adom

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Rekhiatu Oboirien Abdul Rauf

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Farrid Boadu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Seth Owusu-Agyei Medical Laboratory, Microbiology/Molecular Biology, Kintampo Health Reasearch Centre, Kintampo, Ghana

Godfred Appiah Amoah

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Ejike Felix Chukwurah

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health Science and Technology, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.