Modern Perspectives of Child Neurology

S W D'Souza

Archives of Disease in Childhood · 1992 · 35 citations · 0 references

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month of life, and it is easier to reach these children a few months after birth.BCG vaccine can be given at this time as well as other vaccines.We also want to stress that the distribution of cases having purified protein derivative results of less than 5 mm induration at 12 months were found to be 33% in babies given BCG in the first three days of life and 13% in the babies vaccinated at the third month instead.So differences of immunity are about 20% instead of 7%.