About the Authors

Augustina Angelina Sylverken

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

asylverken@knust.edu.gh

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

Alexander Kwarteng

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Sampson Twumasi-Ankrah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Owusu

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Rejoice Agyeiwaa Arthur

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Rexford Mawunyo Dumevi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Louis Adu-Amoah

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Nicholas Addofoh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Portia Boakye Okyere

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Francisca Dzata

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Frank Bonsu

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

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Yaw Adusi-Poku

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Katharina Kranzer

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Supranationale Reference Mycobacterium Laboratory, Borstel, Germany

Andrew Siroka

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Wayne van Gemert

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Anna Dean

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Ellis Owusu-Dabo

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

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Global and International Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.