About the Authors

Gideon Agyare

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

David Courtin

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

Affiliation UMR 261 MERIT, Université de Paris, Institute de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Paris, France

Samuel Asamoah Sakyi

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Gideon Kwesi Nakotey

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Central College of Science and Technology, Agona Swedru, Ghana

Naa Adjeley Frempong

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

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Prince Amoah Barnie

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

Affiliation Department of Forensic Science, School of Biological Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Samuel Kofi Tchum

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

Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana

Samuel Victor Nuvor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Benjamin Amoani

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

bamoani@ucc.edu.gh

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Central College of Science and Technology, Agona Swedru, Ghana, Department of Biomedical Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.