About the Authors

Briton M. Kavulavu

Contributed equally to this work with: Briton M. Kavulavu, Oscar Asanya Nyangiri

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, School of Health Sciences, Kisii University, Kisii, Kenya, Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Eric O. Omwenga

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

omorieric@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, School of Health Sciences, Kisii University, Kisii, Kenya

Oscar Asanya Nyangiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Briton M. Kavulavu, Oscar Asanya Nyangiri

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, School of Health Sciences, Kisii University, Kisii, Kenya

Andrew K. Nyerere

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Rael J. Too

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Elizabeth J. Matey

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Siri Göpel

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Tübingen, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Wycliffe Mogoa

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Child Health and Pediatrics, School of Health Sciences, Kisii University, Kisii, Kenya

Thorben Schilling

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Livestock Infectiology and Environmental Hygiene, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Ludwig E. Hoelzle

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

‡ LEH and BPG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Livestock Infectiology and Environmental Hygiene, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Beryl Primrose Gladstone

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

‡ LEH and BPG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Tübingen, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.