Annual trends in Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection and rifampicin resistance at a regional referral hospital in Northern Ghana, 2019–2024

• Solomon Wireko ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: excellence521@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Health Science, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3121-6114

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• Joseph Nyarko,

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

  Affiliation Medicare College of Applied Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Kristine Harley Arthur-Quayson,

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

  Affiliation Medicare College of Applied Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Osman Abu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Upper East Regional Hospital, Bolgatanga, Ghana

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• Rebecca Appiah,

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

  Affiliation Upper East Regional Hospital, Bolgatanga, Ghana

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• Mina Ofosu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Health Science, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Alexander Kwarteng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• John Gameli Deku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

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• Ebenezer Senu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Elite Research and Data Science Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

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