Leptospira seroprevalence and associated risk factors among slaughterhouse workers in Western Bahr El Ghazal State, South Sudan

• David Onafruo ,

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

  * E-mail: donafruo@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Clinical Studies, University of Bahr El Ghazal (UBG), Wau, South Sudan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7568-9224

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• Anou Dreyfus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2501-7736

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• Joseph Erume,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Clovice Kankya,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ambrose Jubara,

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, University of Bahr El Ghazal (UBG), Wau, South Sudan

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• Ikwap Kokas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Resources and Biolab Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Terence Odoch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Musso Munyeme,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Lordrick Alinaitwe,

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

  Affiliation Central Diagnostic Laboratory, Makerere University (MU), Kampala, Uganda

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• Estella Kitale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Clinical Studies, University of Bahr El Ghazal (UBG), Wau, South Sudan

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• Peter Marin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Public Health, University of Bahr El Ghazal (UBG), Wau, South Sudan

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• Esther Sabbath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem and Veterinary Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Clinical Studies, University of Bahr El Ghazal (UBG), Wau, South Sudan

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• Jörn Klein

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern (USN) Porsgrunn, Norway, Department of Microsystems, Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, University of South-Eastern (USN), Porsgrunn, Norway

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