Use of oral cholera vaccines in an outbreak in Vietnam: a case control study.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Dang Duc Anh (लेखक), Anna Lena Lopez (लेखक), Vu Dinh Thiem (लेखक), Shannon L Grahek (लेखक), Tran Nhu Duong (लेखक), Jin Kyung Park (लेखक), Hye Jung Kwon (लेखक), Michael Favorov (लेखक), Nguyen Tran Hien (लेखक), John D Clemens (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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BACKGROUND: Killed oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) are available but not used routinely for cholera control except in Vietnam, which produces its own vaccine. In 2007-2008, unprecedented cholera outbreaks occurred in the capital, Hanoi, prompting immunization in two districts. In an outbreak investigat...