The cholera pandemic, still with us after half a century: Time to rethink

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ryan, Edward T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; MORC VAX; SHANCHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHOLERA; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PANDEMIC; TREATMENT DURATION; VACCINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; PANDEMICS;

EID: 79851485912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001003     Document Type: Editorial

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