School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK.
Institute for Global Health & Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
BMC Infect Dis. 2022 Mar 26;22(1):288. doi: 10.1186/s12879-022-07266-w.
Vibrio cholerae is a water-borne pathogen with a global burden estimate at 1.4 to 4.0 million annual cases. Over 94% of these cases are reported in Africa and more research is needed to understand cholera dynamics in the region. Cholera data are lacking, mainly due to reporting issues, creating barriers for widespread research on cholera epidemiology and management in Africa.
Here, we present datasets that were created to help address this gap, collating freely available sub-national cholera data for Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The data were collated from a variety of English and French publicly available sources, including the World Health Organization, PubMed, UNICEF, EM-DAT, the Nigerian CDC and peer-reviewed literature. These data include information on cases, deaths, age, gender, oral cholera vaccination, risk factors and interventions.
These datasets can facilitate qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research in these two high burden countries to assist in public health planning. The data can be used in collaboration with organisations in the two countries, which have also collected data or undertaking research. By making the data and methods available, we aim to encourage their use and further data collection and compilation to help improve the data gaps for cholera in Africa.
霍乱弧菌是一种水源性病原体，其全球负担估计为每年 140 万至 400 万例。这些病例中有 94%以上发生在非洲，需要更多的研究来了解该地区的霍乱动态。由于报告问题，霍乱数据匮乏，这为非洲霍乱的流行病学和管理的广泛研究制造了障碍。
在这里，我们提供了一些数据集，旨在帮助解决这一差距，这些数据集汇集了尼日利亚和刚果民主共和国的免费国家以下级别霍乱数据。这些数据是从世界卫生组织、PubMed、儿基会、EM-DAT、尼日利亚疾病控制中心和同行评议文献等各种英文和法文公开来源中整理出来的。这些数据包括病例、死亡、年龄、性别、口服霍乱疫苗接种、风险因素和干预措施等信息。
这些数据集可以促进在这两个高负担国家进行定性、定量和混合方法研究，以协助公共卫生规划。这些数据可以与这两个国家的组织合作使用，这些组织也收集了数据或正在进行研究。通过提供数据和方法，我们旨在鼓励其使用，并进一步收集和编制数据，以帮助改善非洲霍乱的数据差距。
