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Volume 29, Number 9—September 2023
Dispatch

Seroprevalence of Vibrio cholerae in Adults, Haiti, 2017

Wilfredo R. MatiasComments to Author , Yodeline Guillaume, Gertrude Cene Augustin, Kenia Vissieres, Ralph Ternier, Richelle C. Charles, Jason B. Harris, Molly F. Franke, and Louise C. Ivers
Author affiliations: Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (W.R. Matias); Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Boston (W.R. Matias, Y. Guillaume); Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston (W.R. Matias, R.C. Charles, J.B. Harris, L.C. Ivers); Zanmi Lasante, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti (G. Cene Augustin, K. Vissieres, R. Ternier); Harvard Medical School, Boston (R.C. Charles, J.B. Harris, M.F. Franke, L.C. Ivers); Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (R.C. Charles); Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (L.C. Ivers)

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Table 1

Unweighted demographic characteristics of Vibrio cholerae serosurvey participants compared with census participants in 2 communities, Centre Department, Haiti, March–August 2017*

Characteristic Cerca-la-Source
 Mirebalais
Census† Serosurvey
 Census†
 Serosurvey
Total no.
 24,500
 156
45,365
 121
Sex
M 12,157 (49.6) 74 (47.4) 21,397 (47.2) 56 (46.3)
F
 12,343 (50.4)
 82 (52.6)
23,968 (52.8)
 65 (53.7)
Mean age (SD)
 37.1 (16.4)
 42.3 (16.1)
37.1 (16.3)
 44.6 (16.8)
Age group, y
18–30 11,162 (45.6) 47 (30.1) 20,700 (45.6) 31 (25.6)
31–40 4,899 (20.0) 29 (18.6) 9,214 (20.3) 25 (20.7)
41–50 3,728 (15.2) 32 (20.5) 6,519 (14.4) 25 (20.7)
>50
 4,711 (19.2)
 48 (30.8)
8,932 (19.7)
 40 (33.1)
Communal section
1st Acajou Bruler 9,298 (38.0) 51 (32.7) NA NA
2nd Acajou Bruler 7,952 (32.5) 59 (37.8) NA NA
3rd Lamielle (Cerca-la-Source) 7,250 (29.6) 46 (29.5) NA NA
3rd Grand Boucan NA NA 26,202 (57.8) 67 (55.4)
6th Sarazin NA NA
 19,163 (42.2) 54 (44.6)

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. NA, data not applicable for this category. †Census only includes persons >18 years of age because that was the population included in the serosurvey.

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