About the Authors

Gabriel Temitope Sunmonu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Courage Kosi Setsoafia Saba

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Erkison Ewomazino Odih

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Opoku Bright

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Eric Edem Y. Osei

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Alfred Mensah

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Saeed Abdallah

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Abdul-Razak Alhassan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Stephen Wilson Kpordze

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Olabisi C. Akinlabi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Anderson O. Oaikhena

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Beverly Egyir

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

iruka.n.okeke@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Iruka N. Okeke

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

iruka.n.okeke@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.