Enabling targeted mass drug administration for schistosomiasis in north-western Tanzania: Exploring the use of geostatistical modeling to inform planning at sub-district level

• Jake D. Mathewson ,

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

  * E-mail: j.mathewson@kit.nl

  Current address: Department of Epidemiology, KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Kit-Royal Tropical Institute, Epidemiology, Center for Applied Spatial Epidemiology (CASE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7368-4915

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• Linda van der Spek ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Kit-Royal Tropical Institute, Epidemiology, Center for Applied Spatial Epidemiology (CASE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Humphrey D. Mazigo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Department of Medical Parasitology & Entomology, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• George Kabona,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, National Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme, Dodoma, Tanzania

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• Sake J. de Vlas,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Andreas Nshala,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

  Affiliation Crown Agents, London United Kingdom

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• Ente J. J. Rood

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

  Current address: Department of Epidemiology, KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  Affiliation Kit-Royal Tropical Institute, Epidemiology, Center for Applied Spatial Epidemiology (CASE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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