About the Authors

Samson Onsando

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

samonsando@gmail.com

Affiliations Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kisii, Kenya, Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Wycliffe Masanta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Maseno University, Private Bag, Maseno, Kenya

Andrew Nyerere

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Moses Njire

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Gervason Moriasi

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical School, Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Biotechnology, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Kenyatta University, GPO, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.