The Lack of Association Between Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination and Clustering of Aboriginals with Tuberculosis in Western Canada

Autor: Victoria J Cook, Eduardo Hernández-Garduño, Dennis Kunimoto, Earl S Hershfield, E Anne Fanning, Vernon H Hoeppner, R Kevin Elwood, J Mark FitzGerald, Canadian Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Study Group
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Canadian Respiratory Journal, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 134-138 (2005)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1198-2241
DOI: 10.1155/2005/916404
Popis: BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem for Aboriginal people in Canada, with high rates of clustering of active TB cases. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination has been used as a preventive measure against TB in this high-risk population.
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