Six rounds of annual praziquantel treatment during a national helminth control program significantly reduced schistosome infection and morbidity levels in a cohort of schoolchildren in Zimbabwe

• Takafira Mduluza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe, TIBA Zimbabwe, NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Caitlin Jones,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Infection, Immunity & Evolution and Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) at the University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Derick N. M. Osakunor,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Infection, Immunity & Evolution and Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4853-5384

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• Rivka Lim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Centre for Infection, Immunity & Evolution and Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) at the University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Julius K. Kuebel,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Infection, Immunity & Evolution and Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) at the University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Isaac Phiri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology & Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Child Care, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Portia Manangazira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology & Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Child Care, Harare, Zimbabwe

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0347-3500

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• Paradzayi Tagwireyi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Geo-information and Earth Observation Centre, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Francisca Mutapi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: f.mutapi@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Centre for Infection, Immunity & Evolution and Institute of Immunology & Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) at the University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2537-3466

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