Safety of the recombinant cholera toxin B subunit, killed whole-cell (rBS-WC) oral cholera vaccine in pregnancy.

• Main Authors: Ramadhan Hashim (Author), Ahmed M Khatib (Author), Godwin Enwere (Author), Jin Kyung Park (Author), Rita Reyburn (Author), Mohammad Ali (Author), Na Yoon Chang (Author), Deok Ryun Kim (Author), Benedikt Ley (Author), Kamala Thriemer (Author), Anna Lena Lopez (Author), John D Clemens (Author), Jacqueline L Deen (Author), Sunheang Shin (Author), Christian Schaetti (Author), Raymond Hutubessy (Author), Maria Teresa Aguado (Author), Marie Paule Kieny (Author), David Sack (Author), Stephen Obaro (Author), Attiye J Shaame (Author), Said M Ali (Author), Abdul A Saleh (Author), Lorenz von Seidlein (Author), Mohamed S Jiddawi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mass vaccinations are a main strategy in the deployment of oral cholera vaccines. Campaigns avoid giving vaccine to pregnant women because of the absence of safety data of the killed whole-cell oral cholera (rBS-WC) vaccine. Balancing this concern is the known higher risk of cholera and of complicat...