Author contributions
Victor M. Wauye: Conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, project administration, visualization, writing – original draft, and writing – review & editing. Evangeline Njiru: Conceptualization, investigation, methodology, project administration, supervision, validation, visualization, and writing – review & editing. Angela K. Amadi: Investigation, methodology, project administration, and writing – review & editing.
Mildred N. Hagembe: investigation, methodology, project administration, and writing – review & editing. Gabriel Kigen: Supervision, validation, visualization, and writing – review & editing.
Acknowledgements: The authors thank all the staff who actively participated in the management of the case. They also thank the patient and family members for allowing their case to be published.
Ethics approval: Permitted by the Moi University Institutional Review and Ethics Committee, Reference: IREC/723/2023, and approval number: 0004646.
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