Controlling endemic cholera with oral vaccines.

Although advances in rehydration therapy have made cholera a treatable disease with low case-fatality in settings with appropriate medical care, cholera continues to impose considerable mortality in the world's most impoverished populations. Internationally licensed, killed whole-cell based ora...

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Main Authors: Ira M Longini, Azhar Nizam, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Yunus, Neeta Shenvi, John D Clemens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2082648?pdf=render