[BCG revaccination in schoolchildren: a pioneer study].

نویسنده

  • Clemax do Couto Santana
چکیده

* Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Pediatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Presidente do Departamento Científico de Pneumologia da SBP. O primeiro de julho é o Dia da Vacina BCG. O fato de existir uma data comemorativa para a vacina demonstra a sua importância na história da humanidade. Essa vacina encerra inúmeras controvérsias desde que foi empregada pela primeira vez em humanos, em 1921, em uma maternidade de Paris, por iniciativa de Calmette, assim coroando a laboriosa experiência iniciada em 1901 por Nocard e Guérin. Esse produto imunibiológico fôra obtido pela atenuação do Mycobacterium bovis após treze anos de pesquisas, sofreu inúmeras resistências a seu uso na população, e mais tarde foi denominado bacilo de Calmette e Guérin1. Para se ter noção da manifestação popular de então, são conhecidas as charges da imprensa em que se vê pessoas vacinadas com BCG passando a ter feições de bovinos, ridicularizando a vacina e amedrontando a população.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Jornal de pediatria

دوره 78 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002