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

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