Development, field-testing and optimization of tools to quantify soil-transmitted helminths in fecal sludge from school pit latrines in Ethiopia

• Abebaw Tiruneh ,

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

  * E-mail: abebawtiruneh@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-917X

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• Zeleke Mekonnen,

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

  Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Sara Roose,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium

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• Mio Ayana,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Fiona Vande Velde,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium

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• Emmanuel C. Mrimi,

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

  Affiliations Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium, Environmental Health and Ecological Science Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• John S. Gilleard,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Michael R. Templeton,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Zewdie Birhanu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Jaco J. Verweij,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Elisabeth Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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• Luc E. Coffeng,

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

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

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• Bruno Levecke

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

  Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium

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