About the Authors

Timzing Miri-Dashe

tdashe@ihvnigeria.org

Affiliations Clinical Laboratory Services and Laboratory Research, Plateau State Human Virology Research Centre (PLASVIREC), Institute of Human Virology, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, Clinical Laboratory Services, Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

Sophia Osawe

Affiliations Clinical Laboratory Services and Laboratory Research, Plateau State Human Virology Research Centre (PLASVIREC), Institute of Human Virology, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, Clinical Laboratory Services, Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

Monday Tokdung

Affiliation Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

Nenbammun Daniel

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory Services and Laboratory Research, Plateau State Human Virology Research Centre (PLASVIREC), Institute of Human Virology, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

Rahila Pam Choji

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory Services and Laboratory Research, Plateau State Human Virology Research Centre (PLASVIREC), Institute of Human Virology, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

Ille Mamman

Affiliations Clinical Laboratory Services and Laboratory Research, Plateau State Human Virology Research Centre (PLASVIREC), Institute of Human Virology, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, Clinical Laboratory Services, Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

Kurt Deme

Affiliation National Blood Transfusion Service Jos, Plateau State Specialist Hospital # 13, Plateau State, Nigeria

Dapus Damulak

Affiliation National Blood Transfusion Service Jos, Plateau State Specialist Hospital # 13, Plateau State, Nigeria

Alash’le Abimiku

Affiliations Clinical Laboratory Services and Laboratory Research, Plateau State Human Virology Research Centre (PLASVIREC), Institute of Human Virology, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, Clinical Laboratory Services, Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA TM-D SO. Performed the experiments: ND RPC TM-D KD MT. Analyzed the data: TM-D IM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA TM-D. Wrote the paper: TM-D SO AA DD.