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

• Main Authors: Dang Duc Anh (Author), Anna Lena Lopez (Author), Vu Dinh Thiem (Author), Shannon L Grahek (Author), Tran Nhu Duong (Author), Jin Kyung Park (Author), Hye Jung Kwon (Author), Michael Favorov (Author), Nguyen Tran Hien (Author), John D Clemens (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...