Linelist data from an outbreak of Acute Jaundice Syndrome (AJS) in Chad 2016
AJS_AmTiman.RdLinelist data from a real outbreak of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection which occurred in the town of Am Timan, Chad, between October 2016 and April 2017.
Source
This data was collected as part of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) outbreak response and the the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Chad has approved the use of this data for training purposes.
The original dataset is AJS_AmTiman.xlsx.
This is version 1.0.
This dataset is English.
This dataset is licensed under CC by-NC-SA 4.0
Details
This is a case-linelist which contains de-indentified individual level data on clinical, laboratory and epidemiological information. It can be used together with AJS_AmTiman_population, Blocksshape and Quartiersshape. Please note, that some data has been adapted in order to best achieve training objectives. Also, the GPS coordinates included in the dataset do not correspond to real cases identified during this outbreak. They have been generated exclusively for training purposes.
References
Spina A, Lenglet A, et al. (2017) A large outbreak of Hepatitis E virus genotype 1 infection in an urban setting in Chad likely linked to household level transmission factors, 2016-2017. PLoS ONE 12(11): e0188240 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188240