About the Authors

Kitale Estella John Kasiano

Contributed equally to this work with: Kitale Estella John Kasiano, Lordrick Alinaitwe

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

88kitakand@gmail.com (KEJK); lordricka@gmail.com (LA)

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Science, University of Bahr El Ghazal, Wau, South Sudan

Lordrick Alinaitwe

Contributed equally to this work with: Kitale Estella John Kasiano, Lordrick Alinaitwe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

88kitakand@gmail.com (KEJK); lordricka@gmail.com (LA)

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Walter Okello

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda

Tubihemukama Methodius

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Christopher Joshua Aturinda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Ashiraf Lubega

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Esther Sabbath Frazer Togo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Science, University of Bahr El Ghazal, Wau, South Sudan

Peter Micheal Marin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Science, University of Bahr El Ghazal, Wau, South Sudan

David Kal Onafruo

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

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Science, University of Bahr El Ghazal, Wau, South Sudan

Ambrose Samuel Jubara

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Science, University of Bahr El Ghazal, Wau, South Sudan

Savino Biryomumaisho

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Clovice Kankya

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.