Spatial diarrheal disease risks and antibiogram diversity of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in selected access points of the Buffalo River, South Africa

• Chidozie Declan Iwu ,

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

  * E-mail: chidoziedelan@gmail.com

  Affiliations SAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa, Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG), University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5721-6425

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• Nolonwabo Nontongana,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa, Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG), University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

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• Chinwe Juliana Iwu-Jaja,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Brilliance Onyinyechi Anyanwu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and Environment, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

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• Erika du Plessis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology-National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Food Security, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Lise Korsten,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology-National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Food Security, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Anthony Ifeanyin Okoh

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

  Affiliations SAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa, Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG), University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

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