Journal Articles

Local perceptions of cholera and anticipated vaccine acceptance in Katanga province, democratic republic of Congo
Sonja Merten, Christian Schaetti, Cele Manianga, Bruno Lapika, Claire-Lise Chaignat, Raymond Hutubessy and Mitchell G Weiss
BMC Public Health 2013, 13:60, Volume 13, 22 January 2013

The Cure for Cholera — Improving Access to Safe Water and Sanitation
Ronald J. Waldman, Eric D. Mintz, Heather E. Papowitz, M.D., M.P.H.
New England Journal of Medicine, January 9, 2013 | doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1214179

Effectiveness of an oral cholera vaccine in Zanzibar: findings from a mass vaccination campaign and observational cohort study (paid-access article)
Ahmed M Khatib, Dr Mohammad Ali, Lorenz von Seidlein, Deok Ryun Kim, Ramadhan Hashim, Rita Reyburn, Benedikt Ley, Kamala Thriemer, Godwin Enwere, Raymond Hutubessy, Maria Teresa Aguado, Marie-Paule Kieny, Anna Lena Lopez, Thomas F Wierzba, Said Mohammed Ali, Abdul A Saleh, Asish K Mukhopadhyay, Prof John Clemens, Mohamed Saleh Jiddawi, Jacqueline Deen.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 837-844

A case for control of cholera in Africa by vaccination (paid-access article)
Jan Holmgren
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 818-819

Review of Two Decades of Cholera Diagnostics – How Far Have We Really Come?
Michal H. Dick, Martine Guillerm, Francis Moussy, Claire-Lise Chaignat
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6(10): e1845, 11 October 2012

Stockpiling oral cholera vaccine
Stephen Martin, Alejandro Costa, William Perea
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Volume 90, Number 10, October 2012:714-714. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.112433 

Costs of Illness Due to Cholera, Costs of Immunization and Cost-Effectiveness of an Oral Cholera Mass Vaccination Campaign in Zanzibar
Christian Schaetti, Mitchell G. Weiss, Said M. Ali, Claire-Lise Chaignat, Ahmed M. Khatib, Rita Reyburn, Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, Raymond Hutubessy
PLoS Negl Trop Dis., 04 October 2012; 6(10): e1844.

Improving community coverage of oral cholera mass vaccination campaigns: lessons learned in Zanzibar
Schaetti C, Ali SM, Chaignat CL, Khatib AM, Hutubessy R, Weiss MG.
PLoS ONE 7(7): e41527. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041527, 23 July 2012

Antimicrobial resistance of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated during a cholera epidemic in 2011 in dry season in Cote d'Ivoire
Kacou-N'douba A, Anné JC, Okpo LS, Elogne-Kouamé C, Koffi S, Koffi V, N'guessan K, Coulibaly D, Dagnan SN, Eholié SP, Dosso M.
The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2012 Jul 23;6(7):595-7.

Cholera epidemiology in Nigeria: an overview
Adagbada AO, Adesida SA, Nwaokorie FO, Niemogha MT, Coker AO.
Pan African Medical Journal, 2012;12:59. Epub 2012 Jul 2.

Amino acid addition to Vibrio cholerae LPS establishes a link between surface remodeling in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria (paid-access article)
Jessica V. Hankins, James A. Madsen, David K. Giles, Jennifer S. Brodbelt, M. Stephen Trent
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) May 15, 2012

Elimination of cholera transmission
Didier Bompangue, Guillaume Le Duc, Silvan Vesenbeckh, Nikki Blackwell
The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9822, Pages e46 - e47, 31 March 2012

The global burden of cholera
Mohammad Ali, Anna Lena Lopez, Young Ae You, Young Eun Kim, Binod Sah, Brian Maskery, John Clemens
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Volume 90, Number 3, March 2012, 209-218A

Highly localized sensitivity to climate forcing drives endemic cholera in a megacity
Robert C. Reiner, Jr., Aaron A. King, Michael Emch, Mohammad Yunus, A. S. G. Faruque, Mercedes Pascual
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) January 23, 2012

The Membrane Proteins SiaQ and SiaM Form an Essential Stoichiometric Complex in the Sialic Acid Tripartite ATP-independent Periplasmic (TRAP) Transporter SiaPQM (VC1777-1779) from Vibrio cholerae
Mulligan C, Leech AP, Kelly DJ, Thomas GH.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2012 Jan 27;287(5):3598-608. Epub 2011 Dec 13

Evidence for several waves of global transmission in the seventh cholera pandemic
Ankur Mutreja, Dong Wook Kim, Nicholas R. Thomson, Thomas R. Connor, Je Hee Lee, Samuel Kariuki, Nicholas J. Croucher, Seon Young Choi, Simon R. Harris, Michael Lebens, Swapan Kumar Niyogi, Eun Jin Kim, T. Ramamurthy, Jongsik Chun, James L. N. Wood, John D. Clemens, Cecil Czerkinsky, G. Balakrish Nair, Jan Holmgren, Julian Parkhill, Gordon Dougan
Nature, Volume 477, 462–465, 22 September 2011

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis
Robert E Black, Simon Cousens, Hope L Johnson, Joy E Lawn, Igor Rudan, Diego G Bassani, Prabhat Jha, Harry Campbell, Christa Fischer Walker, Richard Cibulskis, Thomas Eisele, Li Liu, Colin Mathers, for the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF
The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9730, Pages 1969-1987, 5 June 2010 | doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60549-1