About the Authors

Erick Jacob Okek

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

okekerick@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Laboratory, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Fredrick Joshua Masembe

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Jocelyn Kiconco

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

John Kayiwa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Esther Amwine

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Laboratory, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Daniel Obote

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Stephen Alele

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Charles Nahabwe

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Quality Assurance, Allied Health Professional Council, Kampala, Uganda

Jackson Were

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Diagnostics, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Bernard Bagaya

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Stephen Balinandi

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

Affiliations Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Laboratory, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Julius Lutwama

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

Affiliations Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Laboratory, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Pontiano Kaleebu

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

Affiliations Department of Arbovirology, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Laboratory, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Competing Interests

No authors have any competing interest