Unprotected water sources and low latrine coverage are contributing factors to persistent hotspots for schistosomiasis in western Kenya

• Rosemary M. Musuva ,

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

  * E-mail: rmusuva.m@gmail.com

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Centre for Global Health, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9138-5844

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• Maurice R. Odiere,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Centre for Global Health, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Pauline N. M. Mwinzi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Centre for Global Health, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Isaiah O. Omondi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Centre for Global Health, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Fredrick O. Rawago,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Centre for Global Health, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

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• Sultani H. Matendechero,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Program, Ministry of Health KNH Grounds, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7766-4089

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• Nupur Kittur,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE), Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Carl H. Campbell Jr.,

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

  Affiliation Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE), Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Daniel G. Colley

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE), Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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