An affordable cholera vaccine: an important step forward

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9702, 2009, Pages 1658-1660

  Sridhar, Saranya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CHOLERA VACCINE; DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COSTS; HUMANS; INDIA; SAFETY; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 70449522290     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61418-5     Document Type: Note

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