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"Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination and Incidence of IDDM in Montreal, Canada."

Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 23rd, 1997

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Diabetes Care, "Objective: To describe the association between Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination and IDDM development in two different case-control series (A and B) in Montreal. Research Design and Methods: Case-control series A comprised 93 IDDM cases and 2,903 control subjects who participated in a community-based tuberculin reactivity survey and who belonged to the same birth cohorts and areas of residence as the IDDM cases. Case-control series B comprised 249 IDDM cases and 431 age- and sex-matched friends and neighborhood control subjects. Results: In series A, the BCG vaccination...

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