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Urban cholera transmission hotspots and their implications for reactive vaccination: evidence from Bissau city, Guinea bissau. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
BackgroundUse of cholera vaccines in response to epidemics (reactive vaccination) may provide an effective supplement to traditional control measures.
Andrew S Azman, Francisco J Luquero, Amabelia Rodrigues, Pedro Pablo Palma, Rebecca F Grais, Cunhate Na Banga, Bryan T Grenfell, Justin Lessler   +7 more
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An overview of VaxchoraTM, a live attenuated oral cholera vaccine

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Cholera remains a public health threat among the least privileged populations and regions affected by conflicts and natural disasters. Together with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene practices, use of oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) is a key tool to prevent ...
Tarun Saluja, Vijayalaxmi V. Mogasale, Jean-Louis Excler, Jerome H. Kim, Vittal Mogasale   +4 more
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Review of oral cholera vaccines: efficacy in young children

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2011
Cristina Masuet Aumatell1, JM Ramon Torrell1, Jane N Zuckerman21International Health Centre, Preventive Medicine Department, Bellvitge Hospital, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; 2World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for ...
Masuet Aumatell C, Ramon Torrell JM, Zuckerman JN   +2 more
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Immunogenicity of cholera vaccination in children with inflammatory bowel disease

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
The cholera vaccine can protect patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) against both cholera and travelers’ diarrhea. However, both immunosuppressive treatment and IBD can affect its vaccine immunogenicity.
Łukasz Dembiński, Anna Stelmaszczyk-Emmel, Katarzyna Sznurkowska, Agnieszka Szlagatys-Sidorkiewicz, Andrzej Radzikowski, Aleksandra Banaszkiewicz   +5 more
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IMPROVEMENT OF SPECIFIC CHOLERA PREVENTION USING IMMUNOMODULATORS

Медицинская иммунология, 2021
It is known that the combined use of vaccines, cytokines and various immunomodulatory drugs contributes to the development of a full-fledged immune response.
A. V. Filippenko, N. D. Omelchenko, N. I. Pasyukova, A. A. Trufanova, I. A. Ivanova   +4 more
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Sociocultural determinants of anticipated oral cholera vaccine acceptance in three African settings : a meta-analytic approach [PDF]

, 2016
Controlling cholera remains a significant challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. In areas where access to safe water and sanitation are limited, oral cholera vaccine (OCV) can save lives. Establishment of a global stockpile for OCV reflects increasing priority
Merten, Sonja, Schaetti, Christian, Sundaram, Neisha, Claire-Lise Chaignat, Mitchell G. Weiss, Hutubessy, Raymond, Weiss, Mitchell G., Sonja Merten, Christian Schindler, Chaignat, Claire-Lise, Said M. Ali, Erick O. Nyambedha, Neisha Sundaram, Schindler, Christian, Raymond Hutubessy, Ali, Said M., Lapika, Bruno, Christian Schaetti, Bruno Lapika, Nyambedha, Erick O., Sundaram N, Schindler C, Schaetti C, Nyambedha EO, Lapika B, Weiss MG, Hutubessy R, Ali SM, Weiss, Mitchell, Merten S, Chaignat CL   +30 more
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Global oral cholera vaccine use, 2013-2018 [PDF]

, 2020
Vaccination is a key intervention to prevent and control cholera in conjunction with water, sanitation and hygiene activities. An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2013.
Pezzoli, L., Oral Cholera Vaccine Working Group of the Global Task Force on C,   +1 more
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Use of oral cholera vaccine as a vaccine probe to define the geographical dimensions of person-to-person transmission of cholera

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background: Cholera is known to be transmitted from person to person, and inactivated oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) have been shown to confer herd protection via interruption of this transmission.
Mohammad Ali, Deok Ryun Kim, Suman Kanungo, Dipika Sur, Byomkesh Manna, Laura Digilio, Shanta Dutta, Florian Marks, Sujit K. Bhattacharya, John Clemens   +9 more
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Antibody secreting B cells and plasma antibody response to rotavirus vaccination in infants from Kolkata India

Heliyon, 2018
Background: Assessing immune response after rotavirus vaccination consists in measuring serum or plasma IgA and IgG antibodies, but these assays provide very little information about the mucosal immune response.
Anuradha Sinha, Suman Kanungo, Deok Ryun Kim, Byomkesh Manna, Manki Song, Ju Yeon Park, Bisakha Haldar, Prashant Sharma, Aiyel Haque Mallick, Soon Ae Kim, Sudhir Babji, Dipika Sur, Gagandeep Kang, Mohammad Ali, William A Petri Jr., Thomas F Wierzba, Cecil Czerkinsky, Ranjan Kumar Nandy, Ayan Dey   +18 more
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Social and cultural features of vaccine acceptance and cost-effectiveness of an oral cholera mass vaccination campaign in Zanzibar [PDF]

, 2012
Classical cholera control is based on prevention—safe water, sanitation and education of people on the importance of hygiene and diarrheal diseases—health system preparedness and a timely response to provide appropriate treatment in the event of an ...
Schätti Zundel, Christian
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