Sentences with phrase «cholera vaccine study»

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The study notes that by adding the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) to the picture — and achieving a 20 percent coverage rate within five years — the number of cases averted could rise to 88,974.

The cholera studies led to the scuttling of a leading vaccine candidate, a finer understanding of effective immune responses, and, ultimately, compelling evidence that a different cholera vaccine worked.

Forty years ago Levine was one of a tiny cadre of researchers doing so - called human challenge studies — intentionally infecting people with V. cholerae and other pathogens to test drugs and vaccines.

A study published in PLOS NTDs examining the immune response to one of them in Haitian adults finds that while the first vaccine round elicits a strong cholera - specific response in the mucosa (the first point of contact with the cholera pathogen), the booster dose after 2 weeks does not appear to stimulate the immune system further.

Jason Harris, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, and colleagues are studying a bivalent whole cell oral (BivWC) cholera vaccine produced in India that received pre-approval by WHO in 2011.

Given similar results from studies of a different oral cholera vaccine in Asia, the researchers argue that «additional evaluation of the optimal dosing schedule for oral cholera vaccines with the goal of improving long - term immunity is warranted.»