About the Authors

Pasquale De Nardo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania, ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Elisa Gentilotti

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

Affiliations Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Francesco Vairo

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Boniface Nguhuni

Roles Data curation

bonellias@gmail.com

Affiliations Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania, ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Zainab Chaula

Roles Validation

Affiliation Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania

Emanuele Nicastri

Roles Supervision

Affiliation ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Abbas Ismail

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation University of Dodoma - UDOM, Department of Statistics, Dodoma, Tanzania

Giuseppe Ippolito

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.