Protection by BCG vaccine against tuberculosis: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Randomized trials assessing BCG vaccine protection against tuberculosis have widely varying results, for reasons that are not well understood. We examined associations of trial setting and design with BCG efficacy against pulmonary and miliary or meningeal tuberculosis by conducting a systematic rev...

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Published in:	Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 58; no. 4; p. 470
Main Authors:	Mangtani, Punam, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Ariti, Cono, Beynon, Rebecca, Pimpin, Laura, Fine, Paul E M, Rodrigues, Laura C, Smith, Peter G, Lipman, Marc, Whiting, Penny F, Sterne, Jonathan A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 15.02.2014
Subjects:	BCG Vaccine - administration & dosage BCG Vaccine - immunology Humans Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Treatment Outcome Tuberculosis, Meningeal - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Meningeal - prevention & control Tuberculosis, Miliary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Miliary - prevention & control Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - prevention & control meta-analysis trials vaccine efficacy BCG vaccine meta-regression
ISSN:	1537-6591, 1537-6591
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