Oral Cholera Vaccine Development and Use in Vietnam
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1 National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2 University of the Philippines Manila-National Institutes of Health, Manila, Philippines, 3 National Expanded Programme on Immunization, Hanoi, Vietnam, 4 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 5 Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia
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