A questionnaire study was performed amongst subjects travelling to high-risk areas for traveller's diarrhoea and who had been prescribed the oral cholera vaccine Dukoral. The study was performed in 2006 at two travel medicine centres in northern Italy. One-hundred subjects participated in the study and completed the questionnaire. Compliance with the vaccine was very good (83.2%) and no serious adverse reactions were reported. 14.3% of vaccinated subjects reported diarrhoea.

[Travellers' compliance with the use of an oral cholera vaccine].

CUCCHI, Alessandro;COVA, Marisa;SERENELLI, Carlotta;BURIANI, Orazio;GABUTTI, Giovanni
2010

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A questionnaire study was performed amongst subjects travelling to high-risk areas for traveller's diarrhoea and who had been prescribed the oral cholera vaccine Dukoral. The study was performed in 2006 at two travel medicine centres in northern Italy. One-hundred subjects participated in the study and completed the questionnaire. Compliance with the vaccine was very good (83.2%) and no serious adverse reactions were reported. 14.3% of vaccinated subjects reported diarrhoea.
2010
Cucchi, Alessandro; Cova, Marisa; Merciadri, G. V.; Serenelli, Carlotta; Ghiselli, G.; Buriani, Orazio; Gabutti, Giovanni
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