Martinez-Pino I, Luquero FJ, Sakoba K, Sylla S, Haile M, et al.
2013-08-15 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2013-08-15 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
During the 2012 cholera outbreak in the Republic of Guinea, the Ministry of Health, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières - Operational Center Geneva, used the oral cholera vaccine Shanc...
Luquero FJ, Grout L, Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Traore B, et al.
2013-10-17 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2013-10-17 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND Despite World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification of two safe and effective oral cholera vaccines (OCV), concerns about the acceptability, potential diversion of re...
Luquero FJ, Grout L, Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Traore B, et al.
2014-05-29 • New England Journal of Medicine
2014-05-29 • New England Journal of Medicine
BACKGROUND The use of vaccines to prevent and control cholera is currently under debate. Shanchol is one of the two oral cholera vaccines prequalified by the World Health Organizatio...
Ciglenecki I, Sakoba K, Luquero FJ, Heile M, Itama C, et al.
2013-09-10 • PLOS Medicine
2013-09-10 • PLOS Medicine
• Oral cholera vaccines are safe and effective, and in 2010 were added to WHO recommendations for cholera outbreak control. However, doubts about feasibility, timeliness, and acceptabil...