About the Authors

Marshet Anteneh

Contributed equally to this work with: Marshet Anteneh, Mezgebu Silamsaw Asres, Dagmawi Woldesenbet, Desalew Getahun Ayalew

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

Affiliation Bahir-Dar Blood Bank, Amhara National Regional State Health Bureau, Bahir-Dar, Ethiopia

Mezgebu Silamsaw Asres

Contributed equally to this work with: Marshet Anteneh, Mezgebu Silamsaw Asres, Dagmawi Woldesenbet, Desalew Getahun Ayalew

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Geberehiwot Lema Legese

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ GLL and MAA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu

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

‡ GLL and MAA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Dagmawi Woldesenbet

Contributed equally to this work with: Marshet Anteneh, Mezgebu Silamsaw Asres, Dagmawi Woldesenbet, Desalew Getahun Ayalew

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dagmawi2929@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine and Health Science, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia

Desalew Getahun Ayalew

Contributed equally to this work with: Marshet Anteneh, Mezgebu Silamsaw Asres, Dagmawi Woldesenbet, Desalew Getahun Ayalew

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.