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Dog ownership practices and responsibilities for children’s health in terms of rabies control and prevention in rural communities in Tanzania

• Lwitiko Sikana,

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

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Global Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4212-2455

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• Tiziana Lembo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6405-1849

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• Katie Hampson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-6884

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• Kennedy Lushasi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Global Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Sally Mtenga,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Maganga Sambo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7350-1143

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• Daniel Wight,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Chief Scientist Office (MRC/CSO), Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Jane Coutts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Katharina Kreppel

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katharina.kreppel@nm-aist.ac.tz

  Affiliations Global Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7743-6919

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