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Why Not Vaccinate Against Tuberculosis
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Whether to use Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination as a means of tuberculosis control in high-risk populations in the United States is controversial.Abstract:
Whether to use Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination as a means of tuberculosis control in high-risk populations in the United States is controversial. The most frequently cited argum...read more
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Endocarditis due to group A streptococcus.
David G. Savage,Jay Brown +1 more
TL;DR: In a prospective 30-month study 85 cases of endocarditis were observed at Harlem Hospital Center, seven were due to group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus, and six of the seven were heroin users in whom solitary tricuspid valve infection occurred.
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Isoniazid prophylaxis and BCG vaccination in the control of tuberculosis. High-risk groups.
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Persistence of in vitro lymphocyte response to tuberculin in skin test negative children immunized with bcg in infancy
TL;DR: Lymphocytes from BCG vaccinated children retain some sensitivity to tuberculin even years after the BCG vaccination and even at the time when the skin reactivity disappeared, according to PPD stimulated lymphocyte reactivity.
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The BCG controversy.
TL;DR: The history of tuberculosis control by vaccination with Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is reviewed and use of the vaccine is evaluated in light of conflicting results from trials of BCG efficacy.
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The BCG controversy
TL;DR: The history of tuberculosis control by vaccination with Bacille Calmette-Gurrin (BCG) is reviewed and use of the vaccine is evaluated in the light of conflicting results from trials of BCG efficacy.
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Long-term results of BCG vaccination in the southern United States.
G W Comstock,C E Palmer +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the risk of tuberculosis among nonreactors is too low to justify the use of BCG in the US, and BCG vaccination was least effective among groups most in need of protection, especially Blacks.
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Community trials of BCG vaccination.
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Diagnostic and prognostic significance of the quantitative tuberculin tests. The influence of subclinical infections with atypical mycobacteria.
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The value of bcg vaccination.
TL;DR: The usefulness of BCG vaccination in reducing the incidence of tuberculosis in a community depends not only on the extent to which the attack rate in converters is reduced, but also on such epidemiological features of the community as the percentage positive, the attack rates in them, and the conversion rate for tuberculin negatives.