About the Authors

Godlove T. Chaula

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Mbeya Medical Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Mbeya, Tanzania

Lucy Namkinga

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Mbeya Collage of Health and Allied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Tanzania

Wilber Sabiiti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom

Nyanda E. Ntiningya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mbeya Medical Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Mbeya, Tanzania

Bariki Mtafya

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mbeya Medical Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Mbeya, Tanzania

Ally Mahadhy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

allymahadhy@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.