Cholera in Apartadó, Colombia: clinical and epidemiological aspects
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iatreia.3561Keywords:
acute diarrhea disease, CholeraAbstract
One hundred and eighty one patients with acute diarrhea disease (ADD) were analyzed from the clinical and epidemiological points of view; 87 of them (48.1%) had confirmed cholera while the remaining 94 (51.9%) were classified as non-cholera ADD; the only significant differences between these two groups were observed in age and days of hospital stay: cholera predominated In patients older than 5 years (p=O.O42) and the frequency of a hospital stay longer than 2 days was higher in cholera patients (p=O.O16). WHO recommended treatment was effective according to clinical criteria; neither complications nor deaths were found.
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