摘要：The leprosy incidence rates so far in the vaccinated and unvaccinated children aged 5-9 and 10-14 years are similar. The BCG-vaccinated children aged 0-4 years at intake had an incidence rate lower than that of children in the control group. BCG vaccination did not protect household contacts or children aged 5-14 years not exposed in the household, and did not influence the distribution of the forms of leprosy in the cases detected. The lepromin reaction in relation to the age at intake was consistently stronger in the vaccinated children than in those of the control group; the younger the age group the more pronounced was the difference, which was only slight in the age group 10-14 years at intake. If the results of the late lepromin reaction are related to the age at onset (when the children are older than at intake), the differences between the BCG and the control groups tend to decrease. It does not seem that the BCG-vaccinated children suffer from a less serious form of leprosy than the nonvaccinated children (most of them nonreactors to tuberculin). Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (694K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
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