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Evaluation of BCG vaccination among Puerto Rican children.

G W Comstock, Verna T. Livesay, Shirley Ferebee Woolpert

American Journal of Public Health · 1974 · 89 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

A follow-up study of large scale tuberculin testing and vaccinating in Puerto Rico reveals that BCG vaccination had little overall effect in reducing the incidence of tuberculosis and did not reduce the severity of cases occurring among nonreactors.

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Long-term results of BCG vaccination in the southern United States.

G W Comstock, Carroll E. Palmer · PubMed · 1966 · 157 citations

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Carroll E. Palmer, L W SHAW, G W Comstock · PubMed · 1958 · 101 citations

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B.C.G. and Vole Bacillus Vaccines in the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Adolescence and Early Adult Life

BMJ · 1963 · 90 citations

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Tuberculosis studies in Muscogee County, Georgia. VII. A twenty-year evaluation of BCG vaccination in a school population.

G W Comstock, R. G. Webster · PubMed · 1969 · 73 citations

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