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

Victoria J. Cook | Zendy; Eduardo HernándezGarduño | Zendy; Dennis Kunimoto | Zendy; Earl S. Hershfield | Zendy; E A Fanning | Zendy; Ver Hoeppner | Zendy; R. Kevin Elwood | Zendy; J Mark FitzGerald | Zendy; Canadian Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Study Group | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Victoria J. Cook,

Eduardo HernándezGarduño,

Dennis Kunimoto,

Earl S. Hershfield,

E A Fanning,

Ver Hoeppner,

R. Kevin Elwood,

J Mark FitzGerald,

Canadian Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Study Group

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

canadian respiratory journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1916-7245

pISSN - 1198-2241

DOI - 10.1155/2005/916404

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , vaccination , association (psychology) , virology , family medicine , pathology , philosophy , epistemology

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem for Aboriginal people in Canada, with high rates of clustering of active TB cases. Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination has been used as a preventive measure against TB in this high-risk population.

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