Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2005)

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

  • Victoria J Cook,
  • Eduardo Hernández-Garduño,
  • Dennis Kunimoto,
  • Earl S Hershfield,
  • E Anne Fanning,
  • Vernon H Hoeppner,
  • R Kevin Elwood,
  • J Mark FitzGerald,
  • Canadian Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Study Group

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2005/916404
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 134 – 138

Abstract

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