About the Authors

George Agyei

Contributed equally to this work with: George Agyei, Philip El-Duah

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

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Philip El-Duah

Contributed equally to this work with: George Agyei, Philip El-Duah

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

philip.el-duah@charite.de (PED), michaelowusu80@gmail.com (MO)

Affiliations German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, Kumasi, Ghana, Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Rexford Mawunyo Dumevi

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Therese Muzeniek

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sherihane Aryeetey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Brice Armel Nembot Fogang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, Kumasi, Ghana

Jonathan M. Gmanyami

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Augustina Angelina Sylverken

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Richard Odame Phillips

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Owusu

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

philip.el-duah@charite.de (PED), michaelowusu80@gmail.com (MO)

‡ Co-last authors

Affiliations German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medical Diagnostics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Christian Drosten

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ Co-last authors

Affiliations Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.