From the *Department of Microbiology, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
†Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen
‡Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet), Denmark
§Department of Child Health
¶Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
∥Department of Public Health, Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
**Department of Child Health, 37 Military Hospital
††Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.
Accepted for publication May 31, 2021
The study falls under the HAI-Ghana project funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA, grant no. 16-PO1-GHA). The funders had no role in the study design, analysis and presentation of findings.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
A.K.L., J.A.L.K., S.B., L.P., C.E.L., P.K.A. and M.J. conceptualized the study together with study design. A.K.L. and C.E.L. did the sample collection, A.K.L. did the microbiologic testing under the supervision of J.A.L.K. and L.P. A.K.L. and E.T.N. performed data analysis. A.K.L. drafted the manuscript. The manuscript was revised by all authors and all approved the final version before submission.
Data will be made available upon request
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Address for correspondence: Appiah-Korang Labi, MBChB, PhD, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical School, P.O. BOX 4236, Korle-Bu, Accra, Ghana. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
