1. Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana
2. Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), The Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
3. CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana
4. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
5. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA
6. Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center—Frederick, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, USA