Feasibility of mass vaccination campaign with oral cholera vaccines in response to an outbreak in Guinea

Iza Ciglenecki; Keita Sakoba; Francisco J Luquero; Melat Heile; Christian Itama; Martin Mengel; Rebecca F Grais; Francois Verhoustraeten; Dominique Legros

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001512

Feasibility of mass vaccination campaign with oral cholera vaccines in response to an outbreak in Guinea

PLoS Med. 2013;10(9):e1001512. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001512. Epub 2013 Sep 10.

Authors

Iza Ciglenecki¹, Keita Sakoba, Francisco J Luquero, Melat Heile, Christian Itama, Martin Mengel, Rebecca F Grais, Francois Verhoustraeten, Dominique Legros

Affiliation

¹ Médecins sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Iza Ciglenecki and colleagues from Médecins sans Frontières report their experience of undertaking a mass vaccination campaign with oral cholera vaccines in response to an outbreak in Guinea.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Administration, Oral
Cholera / economics
Cholera / epidemiology*
Cholera / immunology
Cholera / prevention & control*
Cholera Vaccines / administration & dosage*
Cholera Vaccines / economics
Cholera Vaccines / immunology*
Disease Outbreaks / economics
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Feasibility Studies
Guinea / epidemiology
Health Care Costs
Humans
Mass Vaccination* / economics

Substances

Cholera Vaccines

Grants and funding

This intervention was fully funded by Médecins sans Frontières. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.