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Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Dispatch

Risk Factors for Sustained Cholera Transmission, Juba County, South Sudan, 2014

Thomas T.A. Ujjiga, Joseph F. WamalaComments to Author , Juma J.H. Mogga, Thabo O. Othwonh, David Mutonga, Asta Kone-Coulibaly, Masood A. Shaikh, Allan M. Mpairwe, Abubaker Abdinasir, Mohamed A. Abdi, Zabulon Yoti, Olu Olushayo, Pinyi Nyimol, Riek Lul, Richard L. Lako, and John Rumunu
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan (T.T.A. Ujjiga, J.J.H. Mogga, T.O. Othwonh, P. Nyimol, R. Lul, R.L. Lako, J. Rumunu); World Health Organization, Juba (J.F. Wamala, D. Mutonga, A. Kone-Coulibaly, M.A. Shaikh, A.M. Mpairwe, A. Abdinasir, M.A. Abdi, Z. Yoti, O. Olushayo)

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Table 2

Factors examined by using bivariate and multivariate analyses during cholera outbreak in Juba County, South Sudan, 2014*

Factor Case-patients, no. (%), N = 134 Controls, no. (%), N = 134 Unadjusted matched
 Adjusted matched
OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value
Ate outside home before illness
Yes 42 (31.6) 17 (14.0) 6.5 (2.27–18.62) <0.001 9.17 (1.89–44.41) 0.006
No
 91 (68.4)
 104 (86.0)
Traveled outside home village before onset of illness†
Yes 37 (28.5) 10 (7.9) 13 (3.09–54.77) <0.0001 10.14 (1.75–58.87) 0.01
No
 93 (71.5)
 117 (92.1)
Treated drinking water at home
Yes 51 (38.3) 58 (44.3) 0.11 (0.02–0.55) 0.04 0.10 (0.02–0.72) 0.02
No
 82 (61.7)
 73 (55.7)
Had 2 oral cholera vaccine doses‡
Yes 55 (41.7) 78 (59.5) 0.08 (0.02–0.35) <0.001 0.10 (0.02–0.65) 0.016
No 77 (58.3) 53 (40.5)

*The first 2 factors increased risk for cholera, whereas the other 2 factors decreased risk. OR, odds ratio.
†Travel from home to any area affected by cholera during the 2014 outbreak in South Sudan.
‡Self-reported.

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