About the Authors

Thomas Ssemakadde

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Ssemakadde, Nalumaga Pauline Petra, Joel Bazira, Kabanda Taseera

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Nalumaga Pauline Petra

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Ssemakadde, Nalumaga Pauline Petra, Joel Bazira, Kabanda Taseera

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

ppaulinenalumaga@must.ac.ug

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Jude Collins Busingye

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ JCB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Joel Bazira

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Ssemakadde, Nalumaga Pauline Petra, Joel Bazira, Kabanda Taseera

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Kabanda Taseera

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Ssemakadde, Nalumaga Pauline Petra, Joel Bazira, Kabanda Taseera

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.