About the Authors

Bwambale Jonani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

bwambale.jonani@mak.ac.ug

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Laboratory Department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso, Uganda

Bwire Roman Herman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory Department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso, Uganda

Joel Fredrick Arturo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory Department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso, Uganda

Richard Kwizera

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Kwizera, Gerald Mboowa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research, Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Gerald Mboowa

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Kwizera, Gerald Mboowa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, The African Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Felix Bongomin

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.