“Then they prayed, they did nothing else, they just prayed for the boy and he was well”: A qualitative investigation into the perceptions and behaviours surrounding snakebite and its management in rural communities of Kitui county, Kenya

• Leo Wood,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Cecilia Ngari,

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

  Affiliation Kenya Snakebite Research & Intervention Centre, Institute of Primate Research, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Stanley Parkurito,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Snakebite Research & Intervention Centre, Institute of Primate Research, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Kieran Barnes,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Denis Otundo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Snakebite Research & Intervention Centre, Institute of Primate Research, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Daniel Asiago Misiani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Snakebite Research & Intervention Centre, Institute of Primate Research, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Geoffrey Maranga Kephah,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Snakebite Research & Intervention Centre, Institute of Primate Research, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Anna Trelfa,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• George O. Olouch,

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

  Affiliation Kenya Snakebite Research & Intervention Centre, Institute of Primate Research, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Robert A. Harrison,

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

  Affiliations Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Frank-Leonel Tianyi

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frank.tianyi@lstmed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Centre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-5285

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