Single-dose cholera vaccine in response to an outbreak in Zambia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 378, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 577-579

  Ferreras, Eva ^a   Chizema Kawesha, Elizabeth ^b   Blake, Alexandre ^a   Chewe, Orbrie ^b   Mwaba, John ^c   Zulu, Gideon ^b   Poncin, Marc ^d   Rakesh, Ankur ^a   Page, Anne Laure ^a   Stoitsova, Savina ^e   Voute, Caroline ^d   Uzzeni, Florent ^d   Robert, Hugues ^d   Serafini, Micaela ^d   Matapo, Belem ^f   Eiros, Jose María ^g   Quilici, Marie Laure ^h   Pezzoli, Lorenzo ^f   Azman, Andrew S ⁱ   Cohuet, Sandra ^a   Ciglenecki, Iza ^d   Malama, Kennedy ^b   Luquero, Francisco J ^a   more..

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

^c UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^d MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^e European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training   (Sweden)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^h INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZAMBIA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 85042081307     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1711583     Document Type: Letter

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