About the Authors

Henry Kwadwo Hackman

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

hkhackman@atu.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Lawrence Annison

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Reuben Essel Arhin

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

Affiliation Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Ebenezer Krampah Aidoo

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Evans Andoh Wilberforce

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Alice Constance Mensah

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

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Louis Appiah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Accra Technical University, Accra, Ghana

Sharon Annison

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Matilda Ayim-Akonor

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Health Division, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Animal Research Institute, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.