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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
卷 142, 期 8, 页码 1625-1635出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813002562
关键词
Cholera; risk factors; endemic; epidemic; Haiti; prevention; transmission; Vibrio cholerae
资金
- French Operational Centre of Medecins Sans Frontieres
Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian urban settings, Gonaives and Carrefour. The strongest associations were: close contact with cholera patients (sharing latrines, visiting cholera patients, helping someone with diarrhoea), eating food from street vendors and washing dishes with untreated water. Protective factors were: drinking chlorinated water, receiving prevention messages via television, church or training sessions, and high household socioeconomic level. These findings suggest that, in addition to contaminated water, factors related to direct and indirect inter-human contact play an important role in cholera transmission during inter-peak periods. In order to reduce cholera transmission in Haiti intensive preventive measures such as hygiene promotion and awareness campaigns should be implemented during inter-peak lulls, when prevention activities are typically scaled back.
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