Volume 5, Number 2—April 1999
Dispatch
An Epidemic of Bloody Diarrhea: Escherichia coli O157 Emerging in Cameroon?
Table 2
Bloody diarrhea epidemic in East Cameroon, case-fatality rate of by age and sex
Age group (yr) | Female |
Male |
p | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cases | Deaths | (%) | Cases | Deaths | (%) | ||
0-4 | 18 | 5 | (27.8) | 16 | 3 | (18.8) | NSa |
5-9 | 16 | 2 | (12.5) | 13 | 1 | (7.7) | NS |
10-19 | 25 | 1 | (4.0) | 20 | 1 | (5.0) | NS |
20-29 | 24 | 1 | (4.2) | 27 | 1 | (3.7) | NS |
30-39 | 16 | 3 | (18.8) | 18 | 1 | (5.6) | NS |
40-49 | 17 | 3 | (17.6) | 12 | 1 | (8.3) | NS |
50-59 | 13 | 6 | (46.2) | 8 | 2 | (25.0) | NS |
60 + | 26 | 12 | (46.2) | 6 | 2 | (33.3) | NS |
Total | 155 | 33 | (21.3) | 120 | 12 | (10.0) | <0.02 |
aNS, not significant.