کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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3421102 | 1594019 | 2008 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Effectiveness of BCG vaccination among leprosy contacts: a cohort study
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری
ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی
میکروبیولوژی و بیوتکنولوژی کاربردی
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چکیده انگلیسی
The study assessed the effectiveness of BCG vaccination against leprosy among the contacts of 1161 leprosy patients at the FIOCRUZ Leprosy Outpatient Clinic, RJ, Brazil, from June 1987 to December 2006. Following National Leprosy Program guidelines, the clinic has administered one-to-two doses to all healthy contacts since 1991. Among the 5680 contacts, 304 (5.4%) already had leprosy. Of the 5376 eligible healthy contacts, 3536 were vaccinated, 30 of whom were excluded due to previous or current tuberculosis, or HIV. In 18 years of follow up, 122 (2.15%) incident cases were diagnosed (58 vaccinated and 64 not), 28 occurring in the first year of follow up (21 vaccinated, 16 with no scar). The protection conferred by BCG was 56% and was not substantially affected by previous BCG vaccination (50% with a scar and 59% without). The risk of tuberculoid leprosy during the initial months was high among those vaccinated with no scar. However, it had substantially declined by the first year and in the following years, when the protection rate in this group reached 80%. Since Brazil is endemic for leprosy and the detection rate is not declining satisfactorily, vaccinating all contacts could be an effective means of substantially reducing the incidence of leprosy.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Volume 102, Issue 7, July 2008, Pages 631-638
Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Volume 102, Issue 7, July 2008, Pages 631-638
نویسندگان
N.C. Düppre, L.A.B. Camacho, S.S. da Cunha, C.J. Struchiner, A.M. Sales, J.A.C. Nery, E.N. Sarno,