Improving community coverage of oral cholera mass vaccination campaigns: Lessons learned in Zanzibar

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Schaetti, Christian ^a,b   Ali, Said M ^c   Chaignat, Claire Lise ^d   Khatib, Ahmed M ^e   Hutubessy, Raymond ^d   Weiss, Mitchell G ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri   (Tanzania)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CHOLERA VACCINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOLERA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASES; DRUG COST; DRUG INFORMATION; ENTEROPATHY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; LOOSE SKIN; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUM DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHOLERA; CITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS VACCINATION; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864270314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041527     Document Type: Article

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