About the Authors

Yvonne Ashong

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

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Frank Twum Aboagye

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

Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, Water Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana

Isaac Owusu-Frimpong

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, Water Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana

Samuel Nyarko

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

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Jewelna Akorli

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Linda Batsa Debrah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Samuel Armoo

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, Water Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana

Alex Yaw Debrah

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Diagnostics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Dziedzom K. de Souza

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ddesouza@noguchi.ug.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Mike Yaw Osei-Atweneboana

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

Affiliations Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit, Water Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana, CSIR-College of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.