aHAND Research Group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mulungushi University, Livingstone, Zambia

bDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

cDivision of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.

Correspondence to Sepiso K. Masenga, PhD, Mulungushi University Livingstone, Zambia. E-mail: [email protected]

Received 26 August, 2022

Accepted 6 September, 2022