[Investigation of urinary schistosomiasis outbreak in the primary school of the village Guébo 2, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire].
We report the results of an outbreak investigation of urinary schistosomiasis in 2012 among school children at Guébo 2. Among the 250 school children, 107 (42.8%) had confirmed urinary schistosomiasis. Age ≥ 10y (OR = 2.6 [1.1 to 6.2]) and self-reported bathing in the river (OR = 14.0 [4.7 to 42.5]) were associated with the presence of S.h. in the adjusted analyses. A massive deworming of the population of Guébo-1&2 was conducted as epidemic-response.
Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, 01 BP 490, Abidjan 01, Côte d'Ivoire, mankoumbasoumahoro@pasteur.ci.
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Soumahoro
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Bosson-Vanga
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Coulibaly
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Sidibé
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Angora
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Kouadio
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N'Douba
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Sissoko
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002947:Cities / Q000453:epidemiology; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012553:Schistosomiasis haematobia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data