Comparative study of reactions and serological response to cholera vaccines in a controlled field trial conducted in the USSR.

This article presents the results of a comparative study of the reactogenicity and the serological response induced by a number of cholera vaccines. Conducted in the USSR on 998 adults aged 18 years and over, the study covered whole-cell heat-killed and formalin-inactivated cholera vaccines, whole-cell heat-killed El Tor vaccine, and a new partially purified toxoid preparation proposed for the immunoprophylaxis of cholera-all administered by hypodermic syringe or jet injector. The most marked reactions were found to occur with the formalin-inactivated cholera vaccine and the least marked with the partially purified toxoid.

[Characteristics of the immunogenic properties of cholerogen-anatoxin according to gel precipitation reactions and quantity of reducing sugars].

The authors suggest the use of determination of the titre of the diffuse precipitation in gel test with the O-cholera serum, and the content of reducing sugars after Hagedorn-Jensen to characterize the antibacterial properties of the cholerogen-toxoid preparation along with (or instead of) the active mouse protection (AU50) test used earlier, because a close correlative association was established between them. No correlative association proved to exist between the vibriocidal antibody titre of the sera of rabbits immunized with the cholerogen-toxoid and the mouse protection (AU50) test or the titre of the precipitation in gel test in the preparation.