Use of oral cholera vaccine as a vaccine probe to define the geographical dimensions of person-to-person transmission of cholera

Background: Cholera is known to be transmitted from person to person, and inactivated oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) have been shown to confer herd protection via interruption of this transmission. However, the geographic dimensions of chains of person-to-person transmission of cholera are uncertain....

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Main Authors: Mohammad Ali, Deok Ryun Kim, Suman Kanungo, Dipika Sur, Byomkesh Manna, Laura Digilio, Shanta Dutta, Florian Marks, Sujit K. Bhattacharya, John Clemens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971217303028