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The lack of association between Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination and clustering of Aboriginals with tuberculosis in western Canada

2005

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This study aimed to determine if BCG vaccination influenced recent TB transmission in Aboriginal people from western Canada through a retrospective analysis of all culture-positive mTB cases over the period 1995-97.

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The lack of association between Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination and clustering of Aboriginals with tuberculosis in western Canada.

Cook, V.J., Hernández-Garduño, E., Kunimoto, D., Hershfield, E.A., Fanning, E.A., Hoeppner, V., Elwood, R.K. et al. (2005). The lack of association between Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination and clustering of Aboriginals with tuberculosis in western Canada. Canadian Respiratory Journal, 12(3), 134-8.

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