Use of oral cholera vaccine as a vaccine probe to determine the burden of culture-negative cholera.
Analyses of stool from patients with acute watery diarrhea (AWD) using sensitive molecular diagnostics have challenged whether fecal microbiological cultures have acceptably high sensitivity for cholera diagnosis. If true, these findings imply that current estimates of the global burden of cholera,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-03-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6417643?pdf=render |