Editorial commentary: Resurrecting a live oral cholera vaccine

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1336-1337

  Harris, Jason B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuated vaccine; cholera; CVD 103 HgR; oral cholera vaccine

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; LIVE VACCINE;

CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; IMMUNOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; HUMANS; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84971542396     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw149     Document Type: Note

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