Schistosomiasis amongst adolescent boys in non-lakeshore southern Malawi: Investigating local risk-factors within a nested community-based cross-sectional survey

• Oscar Herrera ,

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

  * E-mail: oscarflherrera@yahoo.co.uk

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6971-0588

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• Stefan Witek-McManus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• James Simwanza,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Lyson Samikwa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Stella Kepha,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Rejoice Msiska,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Sean Galagan,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The DeWorm3 Project, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Elliott Rogers,

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

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Peter Makaula,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Research for Health Environment and Development, Mangochi, Malawi

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• J. Russell Stothard,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Judd Walson,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation The DeWorm3 Project, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Lazarus Juziwelo ,

  Roles Project administration

  ¶Deceased

  Affiliation National Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminth Control Programme, Community Health Sciences Unit, Ministry of Health and Population, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Rachel Pullan,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Khumbo Kalua,

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

  Affiliations Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach, Blantyre, Malawi, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Robin Bailey

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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