Cutaneous anthrax associated with handling carcasses of animals that died suddenly of unknown cause: Arua District, Uganda, January 2015–August 2017

• Freda Loy Aceng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: faceng@musph.ac.ug

  Affiliation Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3029-8947

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• Alex Riolexus Ario,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3560-1952

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• Phoebe Hilda Alitubeera,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-6509

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• Mukasa Matinda Neckyon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arua District Local Government, Arua, Uganda

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• Daniel Kadobera,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda

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• Musa Sekamatte,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda, Zoonotic Disease Coordination Office, Kampala, Uganda

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• Denis Okethwangu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-6359

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• Lilian Bulage,

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

  Affiliations Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda, African Field Epidemiology Network, Kampala, Uganda

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• Julie R. Harris,

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

  Affiliation Workforce and Institute Development Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Willy Nguma,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arua District Local Government, Arua, Uganda

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• Deo Birungi Ndumu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries, Entebbe, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8986-2050

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• Joshua Buule,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1561-4908

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• Luke Nyakarahuka,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2944-9157

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• Bao-Ping Zhu

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

  Affiliations Workforce and Institute Development Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0065-0153

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