About the Authors

Alex J. Limwagu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alimwagu@ihi.or.tz

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, Parasitology and Medical Entomology Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Betwel J. Msugupakulya

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

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Halfan S. Ngowo

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

Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania

Yohana A. Mwalugelo

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

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo, Kenya

Masoud S. Kilalangongono

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

Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania

Faraji A. Samli

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania

Said K. Abbasi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania

Fredros O. Okumu

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

‡ FOO, BEN and INL are equal contributions and shared the role of joint last authors.

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, School of Life Science and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela Africa Institution of Science & Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, School of Biodiversity, One Health, and Veterinary Medicine, G128QQ, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Billy E. Ngasala

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

‡ FOO, BEN and INL are equal contributions and shared the role of joint last authors.

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, Parasitology and Medical Entomology Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Issa N. Lyimo

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

‡ FOO, BEN and INL are equal contributions and shared the role of joint last authors.

Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania, School of Life Science and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela Africa Institution of Science & Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist