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Hugin

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4. Mixed results with BCG...

Reply to LtTx (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 2, 2026, 11:00 AM

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https://www.cdc.gov/tb/vaccines/index.html

It’s generally more effective for young children and has the downside of complicating the management of an outbreak due to testing false positives.

It’s the so-called latency of this report that concerns me the most. Is it because whatever this form of tuberculosis this is may be antibiotic resistant?

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