About the Authors

Mwila Mapipo

Contributed equally to this work with: Mwila Mapipo, Alex Maleti

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

Affiliation Pathology Laboratory Department, Chinsali General Hospital, Chinsali, Zambia

Alex Maleti

Contributed equally to this work with: Mwila Mapipo, Alex Maleti

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

Affiliation Pathology Laboratory Department, Chinsali General Hospital, Chinsali, Zambia

Phinnoty Mwansa

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

Affiliation Pathology Laboratory Department, Unilabs, Lusaka, Zambia

Paul Daka

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathology Laboratory Department, Chinsali General Hospital, Chinsali, Zambia

David Chisompola

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

d.chisompola@gmail.com

Affiliation Pathology Laboratory Department, Arthur Davison Children’s Hospital, Ndola, Zambia

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: Author [P.M] is a salaried employee of Unilabs. This does not alter our adherence to the journal’s policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.