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2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2022-09-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit...
Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit...
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2020-12-01 • Lancet Planetary health
2020-12-01 • Lancet Planetary health
Background
Between 2014 and 2017, successive cholera epidemics occurred in South Sudan within the context of civil war, population displacement, flooding, and drought. We aim to des...
Between 2014 and 2017, successive cholera epidemics occurred in South Sudan within the context of civil war, population displacement, flooding, and drought. We aim to des...
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2016-10-24 • Scientific Reports
2016-10-24 • Scientific Reports
Despite recent large-scale cholera outbreaks, little is known about the immunogenicity of oral cholera vaccines (OCV) in African populations, particularly among those at highest cholera ...
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2016-11-01 • Lancet Global Health
2016-11-01 • Lancet Global Health
BACKGROUND
Oral cholera vaccines represent a new effective tool to fight cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2-4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies su...
Oral cholera vaccines represent a new effective tool to fight cholera and are licensed as two-dose regimens with 2-4 weeks between doses. Evidence from previous studies su...
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2017-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2017-06-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The importance of spatial clusters, or "hotspots," in infectious disease epidemiology has been increasingly recognized, and targeting hotspots is often seen as an important component of ...
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2018-05-01 • Lancet
2018-05-01 • Lancet
Cholera remains a persistent health problem in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide. Cholera can be controlled through appropriate water and sanitation, or by oral cholera vaccination, which...
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2018-06-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2018-06-01 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
PROBLEM
With limited global supplies of oral cholera vaccine, countries need to identify priority areas for vaccination while longer-term solutions, such as water and sanitation infr...
With limited global supplies of oral cholera vaccine, countries need to identify priority areas for vaccination while longer-term solutions, such as water and sanitation infr...
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2022-04-21 • Lancet Global Health
2022-04-21 • Lancet Global Health
BACKGROUND
Cholera remains a major threat in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where some of the highest case-fatality rates are reported. Knowing in what months and where cholera tends to o...
Cholera remains a major threat in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where some of the highest case-fatality rates are reported. Knowing in what months and where cholera tends to o...
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2019-08-19 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2019-08-19 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Diphtheria, once a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, all but disappeared following introduction of diphtheria vaccine. Recent outbreaks highlight the risk ...
Diphtheria, once a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, all but disappeared following introduction of diphtheria vaccine. Recent outbreaks highlight the risk ...
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2017-04-10 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-04-10 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other climate patterns can have profound impacts on the occurrence of infectious diseases ranging from dengue to cholera. In Africa, El Niño c...
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2015-11-17 • PLOS Medicine
2015-11-17 • PLOS Medicine
SUMMARY POINTS
• A global oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile was established in 2013 to improve rapid access to the vaccine in outbreaks and emergencies in which cholera risk...
• A global oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile was established in 2013 to improve rapid access to the vaccine in outbreaks and emergencies in which cholera risk...
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2021-06-18 • eLife
2021-06-18 • eLife
BACKGROUND
Despite recent insights into cholera transmission patterns in Africa, regional and local dynamics in West Africa-where cholera outbreaks occur every few years-are still po...
Despite recent insights into cholera transmission patterns in Africa, regional and local dynamics in West Africa-where cholera outbreaks occur every few years-are still po...
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2017-06-07 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2017-06-07 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Large protracted outbreaks of hepatitis E virus (HEV) have been documented in displaced populations in Africa over the past decade though data are limited outside these exceptional se...
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2015-02-19 • Lancet
2015-02-19 • Lancet
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2017-07-17 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2017-07-17 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
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2018-05-11 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2018-05-11 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Targeted interventions have been delivered to neighbors of cholera cases in major epidemic responses globally despite limited evidence for the impact of such targeting. Using data from u...
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2012-11-08 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2012-11-08 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Use of cholera vaccines in response to epidemics (reactive vaccination) may provide an effective supplement to traditional control measures. In Haiti, reactive vaccination was considered...
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2015-08-25 • PLOS Medicine
2015-08-25 • PLOS Medicine
BACKGROUND
In 2013, a stockpile of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was created for use in outbreak response, but vaccine availability remains severely limited. Innovative strategies are n...
In 2013, a stockpile of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was created for use in outbreak response, but vaccine availability remains severely limited. Innovative strategies are n...
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2016-06-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2016-06-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
Following mass population displacements in South Sudan, preventive cholera vaccination campaigns were conducted in displaced persons camps before a 2014 cholera outbreak. We compare chol...