Child exposure to animal feces and zoonotic pathogens in northwest Ecuador: A mixed-methods study

• Viviana Albán ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viviana Albán, April M. Ballard, Kelsey J. Jesser, Bethany A. Caruso

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

  * E-mail: albanmviviana@gmail.com

  Affiliations Instituto de Microbiología, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7519-6683

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• April M. Ballard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viviana Albán, April M. Ballard, Kelsey J. Jesser, Bethany A. Caruso

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Population Health Sciences, Georgia State University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Kelsey J. Jesser ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viviana Albán, April M. Ballard, Kelsey J. Jesser, Bethany A. Caruso

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Gwenyth O. Lee,

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

  Affiliation Rutgers Global Health Institute and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Joseph N.S. Eisenberg,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Daniel Garzon-Chavez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Microbiología, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

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• Gabriel Trueba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Instituto de Microbiología, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

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• Bethany A. Caruso ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Viviana Albán, April M. Ballard, Kelsey J. Jesser, Bethany A. Caruso

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

  Affiliation Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Karen Levy

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0968-9401

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