TY - JOUR
KW - Age Factors
KW - BCG Vaccine
KW - Case-Control Studies
KW - Child
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Infant, Newborn
KW - Male
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
KW - Tuberculosis, Meningeal
AU - Zodpey S P
AU - Maldhure B R
AU - Shrikhande S N
AU - Tiwari R R
AB - <p>A hospital-based pair-matched case-control study was carried out at Government Medical College Hospital, Nagpur to estimate the effectiveness of bacillus of Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination against tuberculous meningitis. The study included 92 cases of tuberculous meningitis in the age group of 0-12 years and equal number of controls, matched for age, sex and socio-economic status. The protective effectiveness and prevented fraction were higher for the subjects in the age group of 0-6 years, males and subjects from upper strata of socio-economic class. The overall vaccine effectiveness and prevented fraction were estimated to be 86.54% (70.38-93.88%) and 65.54% (39.22-80.64%) respectively. Results of this study thus indicated that BCG vaccination was highly effective against tuberculous meningitis and played significant role in its prevention, in this population.</p>
BT - Journal of the Indian Medical Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9019079?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1996 Sep
IS - 9
J2 - J Indian Med Assoc
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A hospital-based pair-matched case-control study was carried out at Government Medical College Hospital, Nagpur to estimate the effectiveness of bacillus of Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination against tuberculous meningitis. The study included 92 cases of tuberculous meningitis in the age group of 0-12 years and equal number of controls, matched for age, sex and socio-economic status. The protective effectiveness and prevented fraction were higher for the subjects in the age group of 0-6 years, males and subjects from upper strata of socio-economic class. The overall vaccine effectiveness and prevented fraction were estimated to be 86.54% (70.38-93.88%) and 65.54% (39.22-80.64%) respectively. Results of this study thus indicated that BCG vaccination was highly effective against tuberculous meningitis and played significant role in its prevention, in this population.</p>
PY - 1996
SP - 338
EP - 40
T2 - Journal of the Indian Medical Association
TI - Effectiveness of bacillus of Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination against tuberculous meningitis: a case-control study.
VL - 94
SN - 0019-5847
ER -