About the Authors
- Akaninyene A. Otu
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: akanotu@yahoo.com
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Foundation for Healthcare Innovation and Development (FHIND) Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
- Ubong A. Udoh
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
- Okokon I. Ita
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
- Joseph Paul Hicks
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- William O. Egbe
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Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Foundation for Healthcare Innovation and Development (FHIND) Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
- John Walley
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
This research was funded by a research grant by AstraZeneca BioPharmaceutical company (https://www.astrazeneca.com/) awarded to two of the co-authors. AstraZeneca did not play any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We confirm that this does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in the PLOS ONE guide for authors http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/competing-interests.