Tuberculosis (Vaccines)
"Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Revaccination Questionable With Low Tuberculosis Incidence."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 25th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, "Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) revaccination was discontinued in Finland in 1990. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of BCC revaccination of tuberculin-negative school-children in prevention of tuberculosis. The tuberculosis cases in 1990-1995 were calculated among age cohorts born 1979-1984 and no longer covered by the BCC revaccination program. Corresponding data were collected for comparison from the period of revaccination in 1980-1985 among age cohorts born in 1969-1974. The National Tuberculosis Register was reviewed in order to observe the...
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