Clinical features of Gastroenteritis outbreak and laboratory results
| Case | Date of onset | Temp>38°C | Headache | Myalgia | Fatigue | Diarrhoea | Malaria RDT | Ebola exposure | Multiplex PCR | Admitted to ETU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20th November | • | • | • | • | • | −ve | • | Shigella/EIEC and ETEC | • |
| 2 | 20th November | • | • | • | • | −ve | Shigella/EIEC and ETEC | |||
| 3 | 21st November | • | • | • | −ve | • | Shigella/EIEC and ETEC | • | ||
| 4 | 21st November | • | • | • | • | • | −ve | Shigella/EIEC and ETEC | ||
| 5 | 21st November | • | • | • | • | −ve | Shigella/EIEC and ETEC | |||
| 6 | 21st November | • | • | • | EAEC | |||||
| 7 | 22nd November | • | • | Sapovirus | ||||||
| 8 | 26th November | • | • | Shigella/EIEC | ||||||
| 9 | 27th November | • | • | • | • | −ve | • | Shigella/EIEC, EAEC and ETEC | ||
| 10 | 1st December | • | • | EPEC and ETEC | ||||||
| 11 | 2nd December | • | • | −ve | Nothing found on PCR | |||||
| 12 | 4th December | • | • | −ve | EAEC |
Case 6 experienced gripping abdominal pains, so was isolated, but never developed diarrhoea.
EAEC, enteroaggregative Escherichia coli; EIEC, enteroinvasive E. coli; EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli; ETEC, enterotoxigenic E. coli; ETU, Ebola treatment unit.