Microbial community function and bacterial pathogen composition in pit latrines in peri-urban Malawi

• Savanna K. Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5195-1081

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• Benjamin B. Risk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Rochelle H. Holm,

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

  Affiliations Centre of Excellence in Water and Sanitation, Mzuzu University, Mzuzu, Malawi, Christina Lee Brown Environment Institute, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Tilley,

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

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2095-9724

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• Petros Chigwechokha,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Malawi University of Science and Technology, Thyolo, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2277-6518

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• Drew Capone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Joe Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Francis L. de los Reyes III

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

  * E-mail: delosreyes@ncsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3593-0932

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