Case series evaluation of BCG vaccine efficacy against tubercular meningitis in children in Delhi.
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1993-06-01
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Tubercular meningitis (TBM) is a very serious disease of childhood. BCG vaccination under Universal Immunisation Programme is the only available way of preventing this disease. The present series using case-control method, evaluated efficacy of BCG against TBM in children to be 57 per cent. Suggestion has been made to initiate TBM surveillance in children and conduct multicentric prospective case-control study of similar type.
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Bhattacharjee J, Sharma RS, Singh J, Datta KK, Verghese T. Case series evaluation of BCG vaccine efficacy against tubercular meningitis in children in Delhi. Journal of Communicable Diseases. 1993 Jun; 25(2): 71-4