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1 Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

2 Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, Uni‐ versity of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

3 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Scien‐ ces, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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