Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination
Volume 3, Issue 6, 2012

Is Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine a known risk factor for latent tuberculosis infection?: A cross-sectional study on 180 new immigrants from BCG-vaccinated countries to Kuwait (Article)

Harbie A.A. , Picozzi K. , Thrusfield M. , Sadek A. , Welburn S.C.
  • a Division of Pathway Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, United Kingdom
  • b Division of Pathway Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, United Kingdom
  • c Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
  • d Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt
  • e Division of Pathway Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Bacelle Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine has existed for 90 years and is the most widely used of all current national childhood immunization programmes. The impact of BCG vaccination on transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not clear or whether BCG confers lifelong immunity through sufficient protection against formation and diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is recently questionable especially in tuberculosis endemic regions and vaccinated high risk individuals, which was discussed along the paper work following a new evidencebased criteria for LTBI diagnosis. © 2012 Harbie AA, et al.

Author Keywords

latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) Tuberculosis (TB) Bacelle Calmette Guerin (BCG) Tuberculin skin test (TST)

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84879827342&doi=10.4172%2f2157-7560.1000151&partnerID=40&md5=ed6357a2deace8bf1ed68b3eea7b84d8
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7560.1000151
ISSN: 21577560
Original Language: English