Bompangue, Didier Moore, Sandra Taty, Nadège Impouma, Benido Sudre, Bertrand Manda, Richard Balde, Thierno Mboussou, Franck Vandevelde, Thierry
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundRapid control of cholera outbreaks is a significant challenge in overpopulated urban areas. During late-2017, Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experienced a cholera outbreak that showed potential to spread throughout the city. A novel targeted water and hygiene response strategy was implemented to quickly ste...
D’Mello-Guyett, Lauren Greenland, Katie Bonneville, Sharla D’hondt, Rob Mashako, Maria Gorski, Alexandre Verheyen, Dorien Van den Bergh, Rafael Maes, Peter Checchi, Francesco
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Conflict and Health
BackgroundCholera remains a leading cause of infectious disease outbreaks globally, and a major public health threat in complex emergencies. Hygiene kits distributed to cholera case-households have previously shown an effect in reducing cholera incidence and are recommended by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for distribution to admitted patients and...
Bwire, Godfrey Sack, David A. Kagirita, Atek Obala, Tonny Debes, Amanda K. Ram, Malathi Komakech, Henry George, Christine Marie Orach, Christopher Garimoi
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundWater is the most abundant resource on earth, however water scarcity affects more than 40% of people worldwide. Access to safe drinking water is a basic human right and is a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. Globally, waterborne diseases such as cholera are responsible for over two million deaths annually. Cholera is a ...
Lequechane, Joaquim Domingos Mahumane, Arlete Chale, Falume Nhabomba, Crescêncio Salomão, Cristolde Lameira, Clemente Chicumbe, Sérgio Semá Baltazar, Cynthia
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two million people were affected with over 600 deaths, hund...
Ogola, Beda O. Woldegerima, Woldegebriel A. Omondi, E. O.
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Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
It is often impossible to measure all states affecting spread of a disease. In cholera, asymptomatic and cholera pathogen densities are not practically measurable despite playing a big role in its transmission. They are referred to as inaccessible states of the model and can only be manipulated using the measurable states of the given model. Our in...
Elimian, Kelly Osezele Mezue, Somto Musah, Anwar Oyebanji, Oyeronke Fall, Ibrahima Soce Yennan, Sebastian Yao, Michel Abok, Patrick Okumu Williams, Nanpring Omar, Lynda Haj
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundThe 2018 cholera outbreak in Nigeria affected over half of the states in the country, and was characterised by high attack and case fatality rates. The country continues to record cholera cases and related deaths to date. However, there is a dearth of evidence on context-specific drivers and their operational mechanisms in mediating recur...
Tárnok, Attila
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Cytometry
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Ferreras, E. Blake, A. Chewe, O. Mwaba, J. Zulu, G. Poncin, M. Rakesh, A. Page, A. L. Quilici, M. L. Azman, A. S.
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Epidemiology and Infection
We conducted a matched case-control (MCC), test-negative case-control (TNCC) and case-cohort study in 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia, following a mass vaccination campaign. Confirmed cholera cases served as cases in all three study designs. In the TNCC, control-subjects were cases with negative cholera culture and polymerase chain reaction results. Matched...
Das, Bhabatosh Verma, Jyoti Kumar, Pawan Ghosh, Amit Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan
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Vaccine
The unique genetic makeup and remarkable competency of Vibrio cholerae are the key factors that help the cholera pathogen adapt rapidly to adverse environmental conditions and resist the detrimental effect of antimicrobial agents. In the last few decades, V. cholerae that causes acute watery diarrhoeal disease cholera has emerged as a notorious mul...
Lonappan, Sophia Golecha, Ria Balakrish Nair, G
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Vaccine
Cholera has been extremely pervasive during the past four decades and continues to remain a significant public health concern. The disease has plagued humankind in the form of seven pandemics since the last two centuries. There is considerable scientific evidence based on research on cholera and its etiologic agent Vibrio cholerae, however we are s...
