Relationship between Bacille Calmette - Guérin vaccination, Mantoux test positivity, and geohelminth infection

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 473-476

  Cooper, Philip J ^a,b,c   Chico, M E ^a   Gaus, D ^a   Griffin, G E ^b  

^a Hospital Pedro Vicente Maldonado   (Ecuador)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SALUDESA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma duodenale; Ascaris lumbricoides; Bacille Calmette Gu rin; Ecuador; Geohelminth infection; Mantoux test; Strongyloides stercoralis; Trichuris trichiura

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BCG VACCINATION; BIRTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SENSITIZATION; ECUADOR; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCAR FORMATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; NEMATODA; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 19244366675     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)90094-0     Document Type: Article

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