Cholera Incidence and Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Sites during Multi-country Surveillance

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Mean annual incidence rate of cholera suspect cases and culture confirmed cases (crude or corrected) in the Africhol sites.

<p>N = 13,377.</p

Suspect cases with culture done and Suspect cases with positive culture for <i>Vibrio cholera</i> (first part).

<p>Surveillance zone, Beira city, Mozambique (A); surveillance zone, Koumassi-Vridi-Port Boët district, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (B); surveillance zone, Lake district, Togo (C); surveillance zone, Mbale-Manafwa-Butaleja districts, Uganda (D); surveillance zone, Lome-Golfe districts, Togo (E); surveillance zone, Conakry, Guinea (F); Dark blue bars show cases with culture test done, light blue bars show cases with culture test not done, green bars show cases with <i>Vibrio cholera</i> identified by culture, and yellow bars show cases having a culture negative for <i>Vibrio cholera</i>. The dashed line shows the first month of the enhanced Africhol surveillance. The dotted line shows the last month of the enhanced Africhol surveillance.</p

Case fatality ratio (CFR) among suspected and culture confirmed cholera cases.

<p>N = 5980.</p

Suspect cases with culture done and Suspect cases with positive culture for <i>Vibrio cholera</i> (second part).

<p>Surveillance zone, Goma-Karisimbi districts, DRC (G); outbreak site, Pemba city, Mozambique (H); outbreak site, Adiake prefecture, Cote d’Ivoire (I); outbreak site, Kasese district, Uganda (J); outbreak site, Maluku-Kingabwa-Massina districts, Kinshasa, DRC (K). Dark blue bars show cases with culture test done, light blue bars show cases with culture test not done, green bars show cases with <i>Vibrio cholera</i> identified by culture, and yellow bars show cases having a culture negative for <i>Vibrio cholera</i>. The dashed line shows the first month of the enhanced Africhol surveillance. The dotted line shows the last month of the enhanced Africhol surveillance.</p

Gender, age and season of occurrence of cholera suspect cases.

<p>N = 6280.</p

Suspect cases with stool sample collected, culture test done and culture positive result.

<p>N = 13,377.</p

Gender, age and season of occurrence of culture confirmed cholera cases.

<p>N = 1019.</p

Clinical characteristics of suspect cholera cases.

<p>N = 6280.</p