Development of BCG Scar and Subsequent Morbidity and Mortality in Rural Guinea-Bissau
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Development of BCG Scar and Subsequent Morbidity and Mortality in Rural Guinea-Bissau.
BACKGROUND Previous studies have found that BCG vaccination has nonspecific beneficial effects on child survival, especially among children who developed a BCG scar. These studies have mostly been done in settings with a high scar frequency. In rural Guinea-Bissau, many children do not develop a scar; we tested the hypothesis that among BCG-vaccinated children, a vaccination scar was associated...
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Effect of revaccination with BCG in early childhood on mortality: randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ452