Technical considerations of cholera vaccines and some results of cholera - El-Tor mass immunization
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Among the bacterial vaccines used for prophylactic measures, Cholera vaccme does not give a complete protection or a satisfactory mass vaccinations result compared with other biologics used for the prevention of other human infectious diseases. This relative failure is partly due to the fact that cholera used to be, for many centuries, a problem in a limited part of Asia and from this asian foc...
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volume 18 issue 1
pages 85- 94
publication date 1966-02-01
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