Effectiveness of bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination history on pulmonary tuberculosis symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of BCG vaccination on the severity of clinical symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis symptoms (PTb) in patients from the northwest and west of Iran.

Materials and methods

In a cross sectional study of 358 patients with a diagnosis of PTb, 11 clinical symptoms, including cough, chest pain, dyspnea, sputum, fever, hemoptysis, weight loss, loss of appetite, wheezing, weakness, and fatigue were checked and patients with a score of six or more were placed in the severe clinical symptoms group. BCG vaccination scar and clinical symptoms were examined and recorded.

Results

Of the subjects included in this study, 264 cases (73.7%) had no BCG vaccination scar. Comparison of the severity of clinical symptom

SUBMITTER: Farajnia S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879972 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature