Investigation of Waltheria indica L. (sleepy morning plant) as pathogen killing agent from shallow well water revealed a potential alternative for water disinfection

• Josephat Ilunde ,

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

  * E-mail: mwema.felix@nm-aist.ac.tz, mwema.felix@gmail.com (MFM); ilundej@gmail.com (JI)

  Affiliation School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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• Nelson Mpumi,

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

  Affiliation School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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• Mwema Felix Mwema ,

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

  * E-mail: mwema.felix@nm-aist.ac.tz, mwema.felix@gmail.com (MFM); ilundej@gmail.com (JI)

  Affiliation School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1084-2497

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• Revocatus L. Machunda

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

  Affiliation School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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