India is looking at several potential vaccine candidates for deployment in the tuberculosis elimination programme with the Indian Council for Medical Research testing the BCG vaccine for TB control.
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Injected into the skin, it provides only partial protection against TB in young children and no protection in adults. “BCG has probably been administered to more humans than any other vaccine ...
Economic evaluations of BCG vaccination were searched using PubMed and Embase databases. Keywords for retrieval were "tuberculous meningitis" or "miliary tuberculosis" or "bacillus Calmette ...
There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...