Downstream community risks post dam-spillage flooding along the Volta River in Ghana: potential pathogens and public health implications

• Grace Semabia Kpeli ,

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

  * E-mail: gkpeli@uhas.edu.gh

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7025-8598

  ⨯
• Prince Agyirey-Kwakye,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Genomics, AttoDiagnostics Ltd, Attogroup, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Counseller Nutifafa Livingstone,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Lillian Teye Cudjoe,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Emmanuel Edem Dotse,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Ebenezer Nyarko,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Ebenezer Zar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Obed Nyarko-Otu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Hubert Kwame Agbogli,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Godwin Glilekpeh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Solomon Korankye,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Priscilla Essandoh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  ⨯
• Daniel Elorm Kabotso

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Basic Science, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokode Lokoe, Ho, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4795-320X

  ⨯