Infant BCG vaccination and risk of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis throughout the life course: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

Background BCG vaccines are given to more than 100 million children every year, but there is considerable debate regarding the effectiveness of BCG vaccination in preventing tuberculosis and death, particularly among older children and adults. We therefore aimed to investigate the age-specific imp...

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Main Authors: Martinez, Leonardo, Cords, Olivia, Acuna-Villaorduna, Carlos, Bonnet, Maryline, Fox, Greg J, Carvalho, Anna Cristina C, Chan, Pei-Chun, Croda, Julio, Hill, Philip C, Lopez-Varela, Elisa, Donkor, Simon, Fielding, Katherine, Graham, Stephen M, Espinal, Marcos A, Kampmann, Beate, Reingold, Arthur, Huerga, Helena, Villalba, Julian A, Grandjean, Louis, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Egere, Uzochukwu, Singh, Sarman, Zhu, Limei, Lienhardt, Christian, Denholm, Justin T, Seddon, James A, Whalen, Christopher C, García-Basteiro, Alberto L, Triasih, Rina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022
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Online Access:https://repository.ugm.ac.id/278852/1/Triasih_KKMK.pdf