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A Prototype Live Oral Cholera Vaccine

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Using the methods of molecular genetics it should be possible to develop a cholera vaccine that produces long lasting immunity. To this end Vibrio cholerae mutants deficient in choleragenic activity have been isolated.

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    Present address: Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024

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HOWARD, B. A Prototype Live Oral Cholera Vaccine. Nature 230, 97–99 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230097a0

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