Administrative Details

Source

Laboratory-Confirmed Cholera ad Rotavirus Among Patients with Acute Diarrhea in Four Hospitals in Haiti, 2012-2013. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2013 Oct;89(4):641-6. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0307.

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2024-02-29 5:34 PM

Notes

From 18 to 30 months after the beginning of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, nearly two-thirds of hospitalized diarrheal patients who were sampled at four large health facilities in Haiti had laboratory-confirmed V. cholerae. 99% of confirmed cases were Ogawa, and .9% were Inaba.

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

Collect stool specimens from up to 10 hospitalized patients per week with acute watery diarrhea (defined as three or more episodes of acute watery diarrhea within 24 hours, with onset of symptoms within the past 7 days).

Confirmed Case Def

Culture confirmation of above

Strains

O1-ElTor-Og, O1-ElTor-In

Observation Properties

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

1

Earliest Observation

2012-04-02

Latest Observation

2013-03-28

Observation Frequency

Other (360)

Suspected Cases

1030

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
sCh

Observations

Location
TL
TR
sCh
AMR::HTI.Haiti 2012-04-02 2013-03-28 1030
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