About the Authors

Mary Inziani

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

mmuyeku@kemri.go.ke, inzianimatilu@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for Virus Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Jane Mawia Kilonzo

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

Affiliation KEMRI Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Marthaclaire Kerubo

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

Affiliation KEMRI Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Sylvia Mango

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

Affiliation Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Alupe, Busia, Kenya

Mary Kavurani

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KEMRI Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Allan Ndirangu

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KEMRI Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Elizabeth Njeri

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KEMRI Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Diuniceous Oigara Ogenche

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Alupe, Busia, Kenya

Sylvester Ogolla Ayoro

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Alupe, Busia, Kenya

Shingo Inoue

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

Affiliations Nagasaki University Africa Research Station, Nairobi, Kenya, Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

Kouichi Morita

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

Affiliation Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

Matilu Mwau

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

Affiliations KEMRI Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Alupe, Busia, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.