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Q: Does the BCG vaccine prevent TB?
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What purpose this BCG vaccines are used?

BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. Many foreign-born persons have been BCG-vaccinated. BCG is used in many countries with a high prevalence of TB to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary disease.


By what name is the tuberculosis vaccine better known?

The BCG Vaccine (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin)It has small amounts of tb bacterium


How do you know if you need the BCG Vaccine?

BCG i.e. bacille Calmette Guerin vaccine used to prevent tuberculosis and also given to prevent compications like such as meningitis in many countries ( not in US). The BCG vaccine confers a positive PPD skin test result but appears to protect only about half of those inoculated


Who invented a vaccine for leprosy?

There is no vaccine for leprosy. India and Brazil currently use the Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine but that is for TB. The effectiveness of this approach is widely disputable and the search goes on.


Is there a vacine for tuberculosis?

there is vaccines for newborns called BCG given intradermally at deltiod. This vaccine will give 50% protection of Tuberculosis to children. Have all newborn vaccinated with BCG especially to countries where TB is common.


What other issues can cause a positive reading of a TB skin test?

exposure to TB and having had a BCG vaccine.


Is VCG a vaccine for chickenpox?

That is actually BCG vaccine. BCG vaccine, also called as Bacillus Calmatte Guarin vaccine is meant for tuberculosis and not for chicken pox.


What is the full meaning of BCG?

BCG may have more than one meaning. The one known to me is Bacille Calmette Guerain. (French). Literally translated it is Calmette-Guerain bacterium. In English it is called tuberculosis. The acronym BCG is used in English for the vaccine against TB.


What is bcg?

BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. This vaccine is not commonly given in the US. Previously a routine childhood vaccine in the UK, since it is no longer routine there have been several outbreaks. For more information, see the related link.


Is BCG vaccine compulsory in the UK?

No the BCG vaccine is only given to those who are in the high risk groups. The vaccine used to be compulsory but it was changed in 2005.


What does the tb vaccination do?

The BCG vaccine contains a strain of mycobacterium bovis, which is a bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) in cattle. The bacteria have been altered so that they do not cause a TB infection but make your immune system produce antibodies. These make you immune (resistant) to the disease.


What does bcg stand for?

BCG stands for Bacillus Calmette-GuerinBCG Boston Consultation Group... if you are speaking of the BCG as in BCG Matrix that is!Bacillus Calmette-Guérin; Tuberculosis vaccine.