Dukoral Liquid: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates

Name: Dukoral Liquid: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates
Duration: 5 min 44 s
Description: Dukoral is a vaccine given by mouth that protects against cholera. It is available as a liquid suspension in a bottle that is mixed with an effervescent powder dissolved in water before it is drunk. It contains four different inactivated strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae serotype O1, plus part of a toxin from one of these strains.

Dukoral Liquid

Generic name	Cholera vaccine (inactivated, oral) / recombinant cholera toxin B subunit and Vibrio cholerae O1
Drug class	Vaccine
Forms	Oral suspension (liquid) in a single-dose glass vial, supplied with a sachet of effervescent powder

Dukoral is a vaccine given by mouth that protects against cholera. It is available as a liquid suspension in a bottle that is mixed with an effervescent powder dissolved in water before it is drunk. It contains four different inactivated strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae serotype O1, plus part of a toxin from one of these strains.

General information

Follow the prescriber and the leaflet that comes with this medicine.