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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 +9 more
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Modeling the Influence of Environment and Intervention on Cholera in Haiti [PDF]
, 2014 We propose a simple model with two infective classes in order to model the cholera epidemic in Haiti. We include the impact of environmental events (rainfall, temperature and tidal range) on the epidemic in the Artibonite and Ouest regions by introducing
Freitag, Caroline +2 more
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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 +18 more
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The case for reactive mass oral cholera vaccinations. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011 INTRODUCTION: The outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe intensified interest in the control and prevention of cholera. While there is agreement that safe water, sanitation, and personal hygiene are ideal for the long term control of cholera, there is ...
Rita Reyburn +8 more
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Cholera Vaccination in Urban Haiti [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2013 Successful and sustained efforts have been made to curtail the major cholera epidemic that occurred in Haiti in 2010 with the promotion of hygiene and sanitation measures, training of health personnel and establishment of treatment centers nationwide.
Jeannot Francois +13 more
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Heliyon, 2017 Background: The final endgame strategy of global polio eradication initiative includes switching from trivalent oral poliovirus vaccines (tOPV) to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV), and introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV).
Suman Kanungo +17 more
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Vaccination in emergencies. [PDF]
, 1999 Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are the main actors of vaccine delivery during complex humanitarian emergencies such as large population displacements.
Paquet, C
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Prolonging herd immunity to cholera via vaccination: Accounting for human mobility and waning vaccine effects. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 Oral cholera vaccination is an approach to preventing outbreaks in at-risk settings and controlling cholera in endemic settings. However, vaccine-derived herd immunity may be short-lived due to interactions between human mobility and imperfect or waning ...
Corey M Peak +3 more
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Vaccines in the time of cholera [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 Cholera, an acute watery diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae 01 and, less commonly, by V. cholerae 0139, is a major global public health problem in developing countries, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths per year and resulting in major microeconomic and macroeconomic losses.
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An Estimation of Private Household Costs to Receive Free Oral Cholera Vaccine in Odisha, India. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BACKGROUND:Service provider costs for vaccine delivery have been well documented; however, vaccine recipients' costs have drawn less attention. This research explores the private household out-of-pocket and opportunity costs incurred to receive free oral
Vittal Mogasale +12 more
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