About the Authors

Isabella E. Ashley-Agbedor

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Samiratu Mahazu

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Fleischer C. N. Kotey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Jennifer Amedior

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Bacteriology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Bright Adu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Immunology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Emmanuel Darko

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

Affiliation Bacteriology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Paul Kwao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Nicholas T. K. D. Dayie

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Anthony S. Ablordey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

aablordey@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Affiliation Bacteriology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Japheth A. Opintan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.