Administrative Details

Source

Molecular Epidemiology of Geographically Dispersed Vibrio Cholerae, Kenya, January 2009-May 2010. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Jun; 18(6):925-31. doi: 10.3201/eid1806.111774.

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:39 AM

Source Documents

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Notes

"All V. cholerae strains that we studied from the 2009– 2010 outbreak in Kenya had the classical ctxB allele..."

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

UNKNOWN

Confirmed Case Def

Sudden onset of >=3 episodes of watery diarrhea in a 24-h period in a person >=2 years of age or <2 years of age if a clinician suspected cholera and V. cholarae was isolated from a stool specimen

Strains

O1-ElTor-In, O1-ElTor-Og

Observation Properties

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

2

Earliest Observation

2008-01-01

Latest Observation

2010-05-31

Observation Frequency

Other (317)

Deaths

327

Suspected Cases

12559

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
AFR::KEN.Kenya 2008-01-01 2008-04-30 53 790
AFR::KEN.Kenya 2009-01-02 2010-05-31 274 11769
Displaying all 2 Observation