About the Authors

Stephen P. Mwangungulu

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

mwastevie@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Geospatial Science and Technology, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, United Republic of Tanzania

Deus Dorothea

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geospatial Science and Technology, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Zakaria R. Ngereja

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geospatial Science and Technology, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Emmanuel W. Kaindoa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, United Republic of Tanzania, The Nelson Mandela, African Institution of Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences and Bio Engineering, Tengeru, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and the Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.