About the Authors

George Nkrumah Osei

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

gosei003@stu.ucc.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Emmanuel Worae

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Betty Effie Adoko Ghartey

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Perditer Okyere

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Felix Abekah Botchway

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Sampson K. Djonor

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Laboratory Sub-BMC, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Richard K.D. Ephraim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.