About the Authors

Mary Wandia Kivata

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

marywandia086@gmail.com, mkivata@karu.ac.ke (MWK); MMbuchi@kemri.go.ke (MWM)

Affiliation Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, Karatina University (KarU), Karatina, Kenya

Fredrick Lunyagi Eyase

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi,‌‌ Kenya

Wallace Dimbuson Bulimo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi,‌‌ Kenya

Valerie Oundo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi,‌‌ Kenya

Esther Waguche

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi,‌‌ Kenya

Wilton Mwema Mbinda

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pwani University (PU), Mombasa, ‌‌Kenya

Margaret Wanjiku Mbuchi

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

marywandia086@gmail.com, mkivata@karu.ac.ke (MWK); MMbuchi@kemri.go.ke (MWM)

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi,‌‌ Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.