Evaluating Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin vaccination by tuberculin skin test response

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1106-1110

  Uyan, Ayten Pamukcu ^a,b   Baskin, E ^a   Buyukbese E ^a   Gokalp A S ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Cesme Sokak   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG CROSS REACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SCAR; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033792824     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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