Acute Watery Diarrhea Surveillance During the Rohingya Crisis 2017-2019 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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Islam, MT
Khan, AI
Khan, ZH
Tanvir, NA
Ahmmed, F
Afrad, MMH
Begum, YA
Kim, M
Hasan, ASMM
Vandenent, M
Uzzaman, MS
Shirin, T
Clemens, JD
Qadri, F
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2021
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BACKGROUND: Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs) fled into Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh due to internal conflict. Considering the public health situation, a surveillance network was established to identify the enteric pathogens and early detection of cholera epidemics. The purpose of this manuscript is to report the clinical, epidemiological determinants of cholera and other enteric pathogens among hospitalized diarrheal patients from FDMNs and host community. METHODS: A total of 11 sentinel surveillance sites were established around the camps in Ukhia and Teknaf Upazila, Cox's Bazar. Rapid diagnostic testing was conducted for immediate detection of cholera cases. Stool samples were transferred to the Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b) laboratory for culture. RESULTS: A total of 8134 participants with diarrhea were enrolled from 2017 to 2019: 4881 were FDMNs and 3253 were from the Bangladeshi host community. Among the FDMNs, the proportion of Vibrio cholerae was 0.7%, the proportion of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was 4.9%, and the proportion of Shigella was 1.5%. The distributions from host community were 1.2% V cholerae, 1.8% ETEC, and 1.1% Shigella. Similar risk factors have been identified for the diarrheal pathogens for both communities. CONCLUSIONS: This surveillance helped to monitor the situation of diarrheal diseases including cholera in refugee camps as well as in the neighboring host community. These findings lead policymakers to take immediate preventive measures.

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The Journal of infectious diseases

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224

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7

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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Biological sciences

Bangladesh

Cox’s Bazar

Rohingya refugee

cholera surveillance

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Islam, MT; Khan, AI; Khan, ZH; Tanvir, NA; Ahmmed, F; Afrad, MMH; Begum, YA; Kim, M; Hasan, ASMM; Vandenent, M; Uzzaman, MS; Shirin, T; Clemens, JD; Qadri, F, Acute Watery Diarrhea Surveillance During the Rohingya Crisis 2017-2019 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, The Journal of infectious diseases, 2021, 224 (7), pp. S717-S724

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