The Effect of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccination at Birth on Tuberculin Skin Test Reactivity

The Effect of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccination at Birth on Tuberculin Skin Test Reactivity

Introduction & Objective: The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million Tubercu-losis cases occur in children each year. Due to the lack of sputum examination in children, the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis is based on three criteria close contact history, chest x ray finding and...

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Main Authors: Iraj Sedighi, Marzieh Asdagh, Mina Nikbakht
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Hamadan University of Medical Sciences 2013-12-01
Series:پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا
Subjects:
bcg vaccine
tuberculin skin test
tuberculosis infection
latent
Online Access:http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-124-en.html

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