Cholera Incidence and Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Sites during Multi-country Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cholera burden in Africa remains unknown, often because of weak national surveillance systems. We analyzed data from the African Cholera Surveillance Network (www.africhol.org).

Methods/ principal findings

During June 2011-December 2013, we conducted enhanced surveillance in seven zones and four outbreak sites in Togo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Uganda, Mozambique and Cote d'Ivoire. All health facilities treating cholera cases were included. Cholera incidences were calculated using culture-confirmed cholera cases and culture-confirmed cholera cases corrected for lack of culture testing usually due to overwhelmed health systems and imperfect test sensitivity. Of 13,377 reported suspected cases, 34% occurred in Conakry, Guinea, 47% in Goma, DRC,

SUBMITTER: Sauvageot D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4871502 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature