About the Authors

Ibrahim Dauda Dauda

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ IDD, ZOI and FRA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

Abdulhakeem Binhambali

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdulhakeem Binhambali, Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril

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

abinham@ncsu.edu, email2hambali@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdulhakeem Binhambali, Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria

Zainab Oyiza Idris

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

‡ IDD, ZOI and FRA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Theriogenology and production, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ABU, Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria

Farhan Rhidor Akorede

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

‡ IDD, ZOI and FRA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.