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

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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2005-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2005/916404

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2005/916404

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