About the Authors

Melese Abate Reta

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

melese1985@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia, Research Centre for Tuberculosis and Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Zelalem Asmare

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Assefa Sisay

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Yalewayker Gashaw

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Ermias Getachew

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Muluken Gashaw

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Zelalem Dejazmach

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Abdu Jemal

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Solomon Gedfie

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Getinet Kumie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Marye Nigatie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Wagaw Abebe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Agenagnew Ashagre

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Tadesse Misganaw

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Woldeteklehaymanot Kassahun

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Selamyhun Tadesse

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Alene Geteneh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Atitegeb Abera Kidie

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Biruk Beletew Abate

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

Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia

Nontuthuko Excellent Maningi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

P. Bernard Fourie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Centre for Tuberculosis and Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.