“There are many fevers”: Communities’ perception and management of Febrile illness and its relationship with human animal interactions in South-Western Uganda

• Michael Wandanje Mahero ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maher140@umn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8477-7794

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• Katherine M. Pelican,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota United States of America

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• Jacinta M. Waila,

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

  Affiliations Makerere University, School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Shamilah Namusisi,

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

  Affiliations Makerere University, School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Innocent B. Rwego,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota United States of America, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Charles Kajura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hoima District Local Government Uganda, Hoima, Uganda

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• Christopher Nyatuna,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hoima District Local Government Uganda, Hoima, Uganda

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• David R. Boulware,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Joel Hartter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Lawrence Mugisha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, EcoHealth Research Group, Conservation & Ecosystem Health Alliance (CEHA), Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-3356

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• Cheryl Robertson,

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

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA United States of America

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• Dominic A. Travis

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota United States of America

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