Administrative Details

Source

Gama, Angela & Kabwe, Patrick & Nanzaluka, Francis & Langa, Nelia & Mutale, Lwito & Mwanamoonga, Leocrisia & Moonga, Given & Chongwe, Gershom & Sinyange, Nyambe. (2017). Cholera Outbreak in Chienge and Nchelenge Fishing Camps, Zambia, 2017. Health Press Zambia Bull. 2. 12-19.

Created

2022-05-29 1:43 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:38 AM

Notes

1. Patients' contacts received prophylaxis and health education. 2. The outbreak was propagated, according to the epi curve. 3. The 3 cultured samples were sensitive to ciprofloxacin, ampicillin, and salbactam and resistant to septrin.

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

Any resident from Chienge or Nchelenge who presented with acute watery diarrhea from February 14th through April 4th 2017

Confirmed Case Def

A suspected cholera case with Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 isolated by culture

Primary Time Criteria

CLINIC

Primary Test Type

Culture

Strains

O1-Unk-In

Sulfamides Resistance?

Yes

Ciprofloxacin Resistance?

No

Observation Properties

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

3

Earliest Observation

2017-02-14

Latest Observation

2017-04-04

Observation Frequency

Other (49)

Deaths

1

Suspected Cases

151

Confirmed Cases

3

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh

Custom

cCh_RDT_R
the smallest number of confirmed cases which there might be in this time frame and at this location by rapid diagnostic test (RDT)

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
cCh
cCh_RDT_R
AFR::ZMB::Luapula::Chiengi 2017-02-14 2017-04-04 1 58
AFR::ZMB::Luapula::Nchelenge 2017-02-14 2017-04-04 0 17
AFR::ZMB::Luapula::(Chiengi|Nchelenge) 2017-02-14 2017-04-04 76 3 1
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