The effect of Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine on tuberculin reactivity in indigenous children from communities with high prevalence of tuberculosis

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 5575-5581

  Araujo, Zaida ^a   de Waard, Jacobus Henri ^a   de Larrea, Carlos Fernández ^b   Borges, Rafael ^a   Convit, Jacinto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

BCG vaccination; Tuberculin skin test (TST); Tuberculosis (TB); Warao indigenous

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INDURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; VENEZUELA;

EID: 52949089319     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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