About the Authors

Adjoa Tetteh Danquah

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

David Courtin

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

Affiliation UMR 261 MERIT, Université de Paris, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Paris, France

Samuel Asamoah Sakyi

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

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

Gideon Kwesi Nakotey

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Central College of Science and Technology, Agona Swedru, Ghana

Samuel Kofi Tchum

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

Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana

Nana Afriyie Duah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Alisé Lagrave

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

Affiliation UMR 261 MERIT, Université de Paris, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Paris, France

Christian Sewor

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

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

Benjamin Amoani

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

bamoani@ucc.edu.gh

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.