VACCINATION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS WITH BACILLUS CALMETTE-GUERIN

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This paper covers work on B.C.G. vaccine carried on in Alberta over a period of approximately four years, during which time some 250 calves were made the subject of experiments. The vaccine was found to be entirely harmless, vaccinated calves developing normally and showing at autopsy no tuberculous lesions. Vaccinated animals in most cases reacted subsequently to the tuberculin test. Calves vaccinated with B.C.G. and immediately exposed to infection showed moderately increased resistance to tuberculosis over unvaccinated controls. Calves vaccinated with B.C.G. and subsequently kept under sanitary conditions for a period, in order to permit resistance to develop before exposure to infection, showed 80 per cent immunity as compared with 14 per cent for the controls. The tuberculous lesions found in vaccinated calves were in general much less pronounced as well as less numerous than those in unvaccinated animals. (F.E.L.)

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