Cholera vaccine: New preventive tool for endemic countries

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 682-684

  Verma, Ramesh ^a   Khanna, Pardeep ^a   Chawla, Suraj ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cholera; Cholera vaccine; Outbreak; Sanitation; WHO

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE;

CHOLERA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VACCINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INDIA; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

EID: 84863686879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.19083     Document Type: Note

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