About the Authors

Catherine W. Mbuthia

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

katieymbuthia@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Karatina University, Karatina, Kenya

Rael J. Too

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Alexanda Mzula

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

Titus S. Imboma

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Ornithology Section, Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

John Kiiru

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Samuel Kariuki

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Abubakar S. Hoza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.