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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.
Any resident from Chienge or Nchelenge who presented with acute watery diarrhea from February 14th through April 4th 2017
A suspected cholera case with Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 isolated by culture
CLINIC
Culture
O1-Unk-In
Yes
No
3
2017-02-14
2017-04-04
Other (49)
1
151
3
Location
|
TL
|
TR
|
deaths
|
sCh
|
cCh
|
cCh_RDT_R |
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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 |