The Ecological Dynamics of Fecal Contamination and Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A in Municipal Kathmandu Drinking Water

Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Paul Scott, Richard Rance and other members of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s sequencing teams for generating 16S rRNA gene sequence data. We thank three anonymous referees for constructive comments on a previous version of the manuscript. Funding: TJ is funded by the Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and the National Institute for Health Research - Health Protection Research Unit for Modelling Methodology. Funding for AWW, JP and 454 pyrosequencing was provided by the Wellcome Trust (098051). AWW and The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, receive core-funding support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Science and Analysis Service (RESAS). SB is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow, jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (100087/Z/12/Z). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD