Heaf test results after neonatal BCG.
Open Access
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 63 (12) , 1490-1491
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.63.12.1490
Abstract
Heaf testing was carried out on 98 preschool Asian children who had received a BCG vaccination. A strongly positive Heaf reaction (grade 3) occurred in only two children. Heaf testing can still be used in tuberculosis screening after neonatal BCG.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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