Anna Lena Lopez

Paving the way for the control of Cholera and Typhoid fever in Kolkata - A research project report of the NICED-IVI collaboration

Cholera and typhoid consume lives even today in the Eastern Kolkata slums. This research seeks to generate enough data to help planning and implementation of vaccines against the two.

International Vaccine Institute (IVI)

National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED)

Posted on 13 Nov, 2010 08:43 AM

This collaborative research work between National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata and International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul under the Diseases of the Most Impoverished (DOMI) Program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to give useful information for the prevention and control of typhoid fever and cholera. The aim is to accelerate the introduction of new generation vaccines against cholera, shigellosis, and typhoid fever, through research and capacity-building.

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