About the Authors

Sheillah Mundalo

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

smundalo@kemri.go.ke

Affiliations Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Regina Ntabo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Kelvin Kering

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Rael Too

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Kevin Kariuki

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Diana Imoli

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Brian Silantoi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Evans Kiptanui

Roles Data curation

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

Susan Kavai

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Samuel Kariuki

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Cecilia Mbae

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.