First Outbreak Response Using an Oral Cholera Vaccine in Africa: Vaccine Coverage, Acceptability and Surveillance of Adverse Events, Guinea, 2012

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Luquero, Francisco J ^a   Grout, Lise ^a,b   Ciglenecki, Iza ^b   Sakoba, Keita ^c,d   Traore, Bala ^e   Heile, Melat ^b   Dialo, Alpha Amadou ^e   Itama, Christian ^f   Serafini, Micaela ^b   Legros, Dominique ^b   Grais, Rebecca F ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c Ministry of Health   (Equatorial Guinea)

^d African Cholera Surveillance Network   (France)

^e Ministry of Health   (Guinea)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLERA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NAUSEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH PAIN; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VACCINE COVERAGE; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GUINEA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887310286     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002465     Document Type: Article

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