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Infants/AIDS Patients at Greatest Risk of BCG Disease

Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 10th, 1996

Immunocompromised infants and late-stage AIDS patients are at greatest risk for disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) disease caused by antituberculosis vaccination, according to a report from Durham, North Carolina's Duke University.

The report was delivered at the 96th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held May 19-23, 1996 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The attenuated Mycobacterium bovis vaccine strain BCG is given worldwide to prevent tuberculosis, and complications from the vaccine are rare.

Researcher E.A.S. Talbot and colleagues examined the case of a Brazilian child who developed...

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