Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

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Multinational Cholera Outbreak after Wedding in the Dominican Republic

Mercedes Laura Jiménez

, Andria Apostolou, Alba Jazmin Palmera Suarez, Luis Meyer, Salvador Hiciano, Anna Newton, Oliver Morgan, Cecilia Then, and Raquel Pimentel

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Field Epidemiology Training Program, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (M.L. Jiménez,); Ministry of Public Health, Santo Domingo (M.L. Jiménez, L. Meyer, S. Hiciano, C. Then, R. Pimentel); New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton, New Jersey, USA (A. Apostolou); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A. Apostolou, A. Newton); Pan American Health Organization, Santo Domingo (A.J. Palmera Suarez); Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, USA (A. Newton); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Santo Domingo (O. Morgan)

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Table 1

Characteristics of case-patients and controls associated with a cholera outbreak after a wedding, Dominican Republic, January 2011

Characteristic	No. (%) case-patients, n = 42	No. (%) controls, n = 62	p value*
Sex
M	33 (77)	54 (89)	0.18
F	9 (23)	8 (12)
Age group, y
15–24	8 (23)	9 (15)	0.07
25–34	8 (19)	20 (33)
35–44	8 (16)	18 (28)
45–54	6 (14)	9 (15)
55–64	9 (21)	3 (5)
>65	3 (7)	3 (5)
Role
Guest	24 (58)	6 (8)	<0.001
Server or food handler	9 (21)	22 (36)
Worker	9 (21)	34 (56)
Country of origin
Spain	1 (2)	1 (2)	<0.001
United States	10 (26)	2 (2)
Dominican Republic	22 (51)	59 (97)
Venezuela†	9 (21)	0