About the Authors

Nigus Checkole

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

Affiliation Department of medical laboratory science, College of medicine and Health science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia,

Waqtola Cheneke

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of clinical chemistry, School of Medical Laboratory Science, Institute of Health science, Jimma University, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia,

Temam Ibrahim

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of clinical chemistry, School of Medical Laboratory Science, Institute of Health science, Jimma University, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia,

Shiferaw Bekele

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of clinical chemistry, School of Medical Laboratory Science, Institute of Health science, Jimma University, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia,

Birhane Teklay

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, College of medicine and Health science, Raya University, Maichew, Tigray, Ethiopia,

Mebrahtu Tefera

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of medical laboratory science, College of medicine and Health science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia,

Ataklti Gebretsadik

Roles Project administration, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, College of medicine and Health Science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia,

Bisrat Fikadu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Science, Welkite University, Welkite, Ethiopia

Getachew Belay Kassahun

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

getabelay65@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of medical laboratory science, College of medicine and Health science, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia,

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.