Vaccines for cholera control: Does herd immunity play a role?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1719-1721

  Von Seidlein, Lorenz ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAHIDOL OXFORD TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE; VACCINE;

CHOLERA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HERD IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; SANITATION; SHORT SURVEY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VACCINES; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 36849073708     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040331     Document Type: Short Survey

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