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Spatial and temporal analysis of cholera cases in high-risk areas of Kenya

2023-10-14

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Cholera outbreaks remain an important public health challenge in Kenya, especially in areas with poor sanitation and hygiene including urban informal settlements, refugee camps and rural areas bordering large water bodies. Even in endemic settings, the distribution of cases exhibits spatial and temporal variations. Utilizing a Poisson discrete space-time scan statistic (SaTScan), this study investigated the tempor...

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Literature Corpus work: 81bf2211-1e90-5da7-9ddf-adcb739bcb45
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.13.23296989

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