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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 1

Characteristics of cholera case-patients and controls during outbreak in Juba County, South Sudan, 2014

Characteristic Case-patients, no. (%), N = 134 Controls, no. (%), N = 134 p value
Age group, y 0.99
0–9 59 (45) 60 (45.5)
10–19 4 (3) 5 (3.8)
20–29 28 (21.2) 27 (20.6)
30–39 20 (15.2) 21 (16)
40–49 14 (10.6) 14 (10.7)
50–59 5 (3.8) 4 (3.1)
>60
1 (0.8)
1 (0.8)

Sex 1.0
M 67 (50) 67 (50)
F
67 (50)
67 (50)

Payam of origin* 0.99
Juba 47 (35.0) 47 (35.0)
Northern Bari 36 (27.0) 36 (27.0)
Rejaf 30 (22.4) 30 (22.4)
Munuki 6 (4.5) 6 (4.5)
Kator 7 (5.2) 7 (5.2)
Others
8 (5.9)
8 (5.9)

Education level 0.85
None 87 (65.4) 88 (65.7)
Primary/tertiary
46 (34.6)
46 (34.3)

Employment status 0.18
Unemployed 100 (81.3) 112 (86.2)
Employed 23 (18.7) 18 (13.8)

*Payams are administrative divisions (counties) in South Sudan.

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