Administrative Details

Source

Godfrey Bwire, Muggaga Malimbo, Issa Makumbi, Atek Kagirita, Joseph Francis Wamala, Peter Kalyebi, Aloysius Bingi, Sheba Gitta, David Mukanga, Martin Mengel, Melissa Dahlke, Cholera Surveillance in Uganda: An Analysis of Notifications for the Years 2007–2011, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 208, Issue suppl_1, November 2013, Pages S78–S85, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jit203

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2024-05-03 7:49 PM

Source Documents

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Notes

In 2011, 61.2% of cases were 15-45 with 61% male and 39% female In 2011 all cholera cases reported on line list (not for 2007-2010) and in 2011 only occurred in Rukungiri and Kasese districts. Deaths: 2007: 35, 2008: 54, 2009: 23, 2010: 64, 2011: 5 Cases: 2007: 1662, 2008: 2630, 2009: 1076, 2010: 2017, 2011: 230 Strain was laboratory confirmed for 130 specimens. Of those laboratory confirmed, 72% were Ogawa and 28% were Inaba

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

Community level: "any person with plenty of watery diarrhea." Health Facility level: profuse, acute watery diarrhea among patinets age >= 5 years, or death in a person with acute watery diarrhea, in areas not previously known to have an epidemic.

Confirmed Case Def

Suspected case with Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 confirmed by culture or PCR.

Strains

O1-ElTor-Og, O1-ElTor-In

Observation Properties

Case and death counts could include double-counting of overlapping observations
# of Observations

14

Earliest Observation

2007-01-01

Latest Observation

2011-12-31

Observation Frequency

Annual

Deaths

186

Suspected Cases

8302

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh

Custom

CFR
case fatality
INC
incidence
POP
population (millions
Age_L
min of age bin
Age_R
max of age bin
Sex
M/F

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
CFR INC POP Age_L Age_R Sex
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2007-01-01 2007-12-31 35 1662 2.1 5.8 28.6
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2008-01-01 2008-12-31 54 2630 2.1 8.9 29.6
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2009-01-01 2009-12-31 23 1076 2.1 3.5 30.3
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2010-01-01 2010-12-31 64 2017 32 6.4 31.7
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 5 230 2.2 0.7 32.9
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 141 M
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 89 F
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 19 0 4
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 41 5 14
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 139 15 45
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 24 46 60
AFR::UGA.Uganda 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 4 60
AFR::UGA::Kasese 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 3 107 2.8
AFR::UGA::Rukungiri 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 2 123 1.6
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