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VACCINES CONTAINING MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE AND THEIR USE IN THE CHILDREN OF LEPROSY PATIENTS IN IRAN
Kiumars Ghazi Saidi, John L. Stanford , Cynthia A. Stanford, Yahya Dowlati,
Volume 8, Issue 2 (8-1994)
Abstract
The policy of vaccinating children who live with leprosy patients, and who have responses to leprosin A of2rnrn or less, with BCG+killed Mycobacterium vaccae if they lack a BCG scar, or with killed M. vaccae alone if they have a BCG scar, has been followed over 3-4 years in two centers in Iran. Judged on the basis of skin test conversion to leprosin positivity, the policy has been highly successful. A way in which the vaccines may work is discussed, and supported by differences in apparent efficacy between the two study centers.
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