Feasibility of a preventive mass vaccination campaign with two doses of oral cholera vaccine during a humanitarian emergency in South Sudan

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 810-815

  Porta, M Ilaria ^a,c   Lenglet, Annick ^b   De Weerdt, Silvia ^b   Crestani, Rosa ^a   Sinke, Renate ^b   Frawley, Mary Jo ^b   Van Herp, Michel ^b   Zachariah, Rony ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Oral cholera vaccine; Preventive mass vaccination campaign; Refugee camps; South Sudan

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NAUSEA; REFUGEE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; VOMITING; AGED; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHILD; CHOLERA; EMERGENCY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SUDAN; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; EMERGENCIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS VACCINATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; REFUGEES; SUDAN; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938882251     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru153     Document Type: Article

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