TY - JOUR AU - Acosta, Camilo AU - Galindo, Claudia AU - Kimario, John AU - Senkoro, Kesheni AU - Urassa, Honorathy AU - Casals, Climent AU - Corachán, Manuel AU - Eseko, N. AU - Tanner, Marcel AU - Mshinda, Hassan AU - Lwilla, Fred AU - Vila, Jordi AU - Alonso, Pedro T1 - Cholera Outbreak in Southern Tanzania: Risk Factors and Patterns of Transmission T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 7 SP - 583 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To identify risk factors and describe the pattern of spread of the 1997 cholera epidemic in a rural area (Ifakara) in southern Tanzania, we conducted a prospective hospital-based, matched case-control study, with analysis based on the first 180 cases and 360 matched controls. Bathing in the river, long distance to water source, and eating dried fish were significantly associated with risk for cholera. Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa, was isolated in samples from Ifakara's main water source and patients' stools. DNA molecular analyses showed identical patterns for all isolates. KW - cholera KW - Vibrio O1 KW - Ogawa KW - El Tor KW - outbreak KW - selection bias KW - Tanzania DO - 10.3201/eid0707.017741 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/7/01-7741_article ER - End of Reference