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Knowledge of Cholera Among Syrians: A Cross-Sectional Study
International Journal of Medical Students, 2022 Background: Cholera is a communicable acute bacterial infection caused by a gram-negative bacterium that is Vibrio Cholera. Worldwide, is estimated that an incidence of 1.3–4.0 millions of cholera infection, leading to 21,000–143,000 deaths annually ...
Mohammad Badr Almoshantaf +6 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 Vibrio cholerae is a bacterial pathogen which causes the severe acute diarrheal disease cholera. Given that a symptomatic incident of cholera can lead to long term protection, a thorough understanding of the immune response to this pathogen is needed to ...
Oluwaseyi Adekunle +5 more
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Considerations for Oral Cholera Vaccine Use during Outbreak after Earthquake in Haiti, 2010−2011
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) have been recommended in cholera-endemic settings and preemptively during outbreaks and complex emergencies. However, experience and guidelines for reactive use after an outbreak has started are limited. In 2010, after over a
Kashmira A. Date +12 more
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Sociocultural concepts of pandemic influenza and determinants of community vaccine acceptance in Pune, India [PDF]
, 2015 Vaccines are considered one of public health’s greatest achievements. Yet, public concerns and hesitancy towards acceptance of vaccines has been noted around the world for various vaccines.
Sundaram, Neisha
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Production of putative enhanced oral cholera vaccine strains that express toxin-coregulated pilus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The use of whole cell killed (WCK) oral cholera vaccines is an important strategy for cholera prevention in endemic areas. To overcome current vaccine limitations, we engineered strains of V.
Caitlyn A Hauke, Ronald K Taylor
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The role of vaccine coverage within social networks in cholera vaccine efficacy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Traditional vaccine trial methods have an underlying assumption that the effect of a vaccine is the same throughout the trial area. There are, however, many spatial and behavioral factors that alter the rates of contact among infectious and susceptible ...
Elisabeth D Root +4 more
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A Mathematical Model on the Dynamics of In-Host Infection Cholera Disease with Vaccination
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2023 In this paper, a within-host cholera mathematical model has been developed using a system of ordinary differential equations incorporating vaccine efficacy.
Owade Kennedy Jackob +2 more
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Use of verbal autopsy to determine mortality patterns in an urban slum in Kolkata, India
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010 OBJECTIVE: To define mortality patterns in an urban slum in Kolkata, India, in the context of a cholera and typhoid fever project. METHODS: In a well-defined population that was under surveillance for 18 months, we followed a dynamic cohort of 63788 ...
Suman Kanungo +13 more
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Cholera in India: an analysis of reports, 1997-2006
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010 OBJECTIVE: To more accurately define the annual incidence of cholera in India, believed to be higher than reported to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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