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Risk factors for contracting watery diarrhoea in Kadoma City, Zimbabwe, 2011: a case control study

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Title
Risk factors for contracting watery diarrhoea in Kadoma City, Zimbabwe, 2011: a case control study
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BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-13-567
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Brian A Maponga, Daniel Chirundu, Notion T Gombe, Mufuta Tshimanga, Gerald Shambira, Lucia Takundwa

Abstract

Kadoma City experienced an increase in watery diarrhoea from 27 cases during week beginning 5th September, to 107 cases during week beginning 26th September 2011. The weekly diarrhoea cases crossed the threshold action line during week beginning 5th September at the children's clinic in Rimuka Township, and the remaining four clinics reported cases crossing threshold action lines between week beginning 12th September and week beginning 26th September. Eighty-two percent of the cases were children less than 5 years old. We conducted a case controlstudy to determine risk factorsfor contracting watery diarrhoea in children less than 5 years in Kadoma City.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 131 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 23%
Student > Bachelor 20 15%
Researcher 19 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Student > Postgraduate 7 5%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 25 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 8%
Environmental Science 10 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 5%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 32 24%
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#18,355,685
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