Identifying the most sensitive and specific sign and symptom combinations for cholera: results from an analysis of laboratory-based surveillance data from Haiti, 2012-2013.

Although the highly significant association between age group and cholera status that was found in our bivariate analyses provides strong support for the exclusion of children < 5 years old from the case definitions recommended by WHO, such a switch to this case definition would certainly lead to missed cholera cases.

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