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Tuberculosis in Newborns: The Lessons of the “Lübeck Disaster” (1929–1933)

In an accident later known as the Lübeck disaster, 251 neonates were orally given three doses of the new Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) antituberculosis (TB) vaccine contaminated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A total of 173 infants developed clinical or radiological signs of TB but survived the in...

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Autores principales: Fox, Gregory J., Orlova, Marianna, Schurr, Erwin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26794678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005271