Fig 1.
Household density map of Kikwit city, DRC, using homogenous areas visually classified as having high, medium or low housing density based on recent high-resolution satellite imagery.
Fig 2.
Drinking water network and sources in Kikwit, 2011–2013.
Fig 3.
The health areas of Kikwit city, DRC, with low (<0.05%), intermediate (0.05% to 0.36%) or high (>0.36%) total attack rates during the 2011 typhoid fever outbreak as well as the city’s military camps (labelled with name), markets, principal roads and points where water was tested.
Table 1.
Attack rates and risk ratios related to exposure to Kikwit water supplies.
Table 2.
Unadjusted odds ratios (with 95% CI) for case status = recorded case of typhoid fever, for responses collected using S1 Questionnaire.
Response data for case-control study are available in S2 Spreadsheet.
Table 3.
Adjusted odds ratios in typhoid fever outbreak, Kikwit DRC 2011.
Table 4.
Epidemiological and water quality data of the three military camps in Kikwit, DRC, 2013.
Fig 4.
Health risks of water points in Kikwit, DRC, based on thermotolerant coliform colony (TCC) counts: 0 CFU.100ml-1 (Minimal risk, according to concurrent UNHCR water pollution guidelines [9]): 1–10 CFU.100ml-1 (low risk), 11–100 CFU.100ml-1 (intermediate risk), 101–1000 CFU.100ml-1 (high risk) and >1000 CFU.100ml-1 (very high risk).