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Sweeney, Eileen |
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dc.contributor.author |
Dahly, Darren L. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Seddiq, Nahed |
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dc.contributor.author |
Corcoran, Gerard |
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dc.contributor.author |
Horgan, Mary |
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dc.contributor.author |
Sadlier, Corinna |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-11-20T05:05:40Z |
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dc.date.available |
2019-11-20T05:05:40Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-05-09 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Sweeney, E., Dahly, D., Seddiq, N., Corcoran, G., Horgan, M. and Sadlier, C. (2019) 'Impact of BCG vaccination on incidence of tuberculosis disease in southern Ireland'. BMC infectious diseases, 19(1), 397. (5pp). DOI:10.1186/s12879-019-4026-z |
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19 |
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dc.identifier.issued |
1 |
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dc.identifier.startpage |
1 |
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dc.identifier.endpage |
5 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10468/9108 |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1186/s12879-019-4026-z |
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dc.description.abstract |
Tuberculosis (TB) is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is the only licensed vaccine for TB, yet its efficacy remains debated with variations in vaccine sub-strains, policies, and practices observed across the world. Three BCG vaccination policies were implemented across adjoining regions in the South West of Ireland from 1972; neonatal vaccination (vaccinated Region-A), vaccination of children aged 10–12 years (vaccinated Region-B) and no vaccination (unvaccinated Region-C). The aim of this study is to examine the impact of different BCG vaccination policies on incidence of TB disease in the South of Ireland over a 13-year period. |
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application/pdf |
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dc.publisher |
BioMed Central |
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dc.relation.uri |
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-019-4026-z |
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dc.rights |
© The Author(s), 2019. License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated |
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dc.subject |
Bacille Camille-Guerin (BCG) |
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dc.subject |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) |
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dc.subject |
Vaccines |
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dc.title |
Impact of BCG vaccination on incidence of tuberculosis disease in southern Ireland |
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dc.type |
Article (peer-reviewed) |
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dc.internal.authorcontactother |
Darren Dahly, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. +353-21-490-3000 Email: ddahly@ucc.ie |
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Full text available |
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dc.description.version |
Published Version |
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Peer reviewed |
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dc.identifier.journaltitle |
BMC Infectious Diseases |
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dc.internal.IRISemailaddress |
ddahly@ucc.ie |
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dc.identifier.articleid |
397 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1471-2334 |
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