TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - BCG Vaccine
KW - Brazil
KW - Case-Control Studies
KW - Child
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Injections, Intradermal
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Prevalence
KW - Skin Tests
KW - Vaccination
AU - Rodrigues M L
AU - Silva S A
AU - Neto J C
AU - Andrade A L
AU - Martelli C M
AU - Zicker F
AB - <p>A case-control study was undertaken to evaluate the protective efficacy of intradermal BCG against leprosy in a high-endemic area of leprosy in central Brazil. Sixty-two cases and 186 controls were included in the study. Cases were all newly diagnosed leprosy patients under 16 years of age attending an outpatient health service, and all of them were schoolchildren. Three controls under 16 years old, frequency matched by sex and age group, were selected from schools geographically located in the area from which the cases came. The presence of BCG was negatively associated with leprosy, indicating a 5.3 risk of leprosy for those nonvaccinated and protective efficacy of 81%. Paucibacillary patients were more likely to have a BCG scar than multibacillary patients.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1474274?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1992 Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A case-control study was undertaken to evaluate the protective efficacy of intradermal BCG against leprosy in a high-endemic area of leprosy in central Brazil. Sixty-two cases and 186 controls were included in the study. Cases were all newly diagnosed leprosy patients under 16 years of age attending an outpatient health service, and all of them were schoolchildren. Three controls under 16 years old, frequency matched by sex and age group, were selected from schools geographically located in the area from which the cases came. The presence of BCG was negatively associated with leprosy, indicating a 5.3 risk of leprosy for those nonvaccinated and protective efficacy of 81%. Paucibacillary patients were more likely to have a BCG scar than multibacillary patients.</p>
PY - 1992
SP - 335
EP - 9
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Protective effect of intradermal BCG against leprosy; a case-control study in central Brazil.
UR - http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v60n3a01.pdf
VL - 60
SN - 0148-916X
ER -