High prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection and stunting among school age children in communities along the Albert-Nile, Northern Uganda: A cross sectional study

• Julius Mulindwa,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Sports Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5419-2760

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• Joyce Namulondo,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Anna Kitibwa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Jacent Nassuuna,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9053-1988

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• Oscar Asanya Nyangiri,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2741-2921

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• Magambo Phillip Kimuda,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3911-8359

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• Alex Boobo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Barbara Nerima,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Sports Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6133-0674

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• Fred Busingye,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Vector Borne & NTD Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Rowel Candia,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Vector Borne & NTD Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-5285

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• Annet Namukuta,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Vector Borne & NTD Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ronald Ssenyonga,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Noah Ukumu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Pakwach District Local Government, District Health Office, Pakwach, Uganda

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• Paul Ajal,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Pakwach District Local Government, District Health Office, Pakwach, Uganda

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• Moses Adriko,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vector Borne & NTD Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9748-1207

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• Harry Noyes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0656-200X

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• Claudia J. de Dood,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Paul L. A. M. Corstjens,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0004-0526

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• Govert J. van Dam,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3773-0819

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• Alison M. Elliott,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Enock Matovu ,

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

  * E-mail: matovue04@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0714-7032

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• TrypanoGEN+ Research group

  ¶Membership of the TrypanoGEN+ Research group of the H3Africa Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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