About the Authors

Dessie Abera

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

dessabera@gmail.com (DA); woldearegay.erku@aau.edu.et (WEA)

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Adane Mihret

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Surafel Fentaw

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Eyob Beyene

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abel Abera Negash

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Woldaregay Erku Abegaz

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dessabera@gmail.com (DA); woldearegay.erku@aau.edu.et (WEA)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.