Can the efficacy of bacille calmette-guérin tuberculosis vaccine be affected by intestinal parasitic infections?

J Infect Dis. 2002 Aug 1;186(3):441-2; author reply 442-3. doi: 10.1086/341656.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Animals
  • Ascaris lumbricoides
  • BCG Vaccine / immunology*
  • BCG Vaccine / standards
  • Child
  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Interferon-gamma / biosynthesis
  • Interferon-gamma / blood
  • Interleukin-10 / biosynthesis
  • Interleukin-10 / blood
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / immunology*
  • Male
  • Strongyloides stercoralis

Substances

  • BCG Vaccine
  • Interleukin-10
  • Interferon-gamma