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Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit, Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, Nirun Vanprapar, Naris Waranawat, Philip A. Mock, Michelle S. McConnell, Bongkoch Jetswang, Kanchana Neeyapun, Jordan W. Tappero, Mary Culnane, Assessment of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccine Reaction in HIV-Exposed Thai Infants, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 45, Issue 8, 15 October 2007, Pages 1016–1018, https://doi.org/10.1086/521929
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Abstract
We evaluated local reactions at 1, 2, and 4 months of age to bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine given at birth to 1058 infants who were exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). No scar was discernible in 12 (12.4%) of 97 HIV-infected infants and 20 (2.1%) of 961 uninfected infants (relative risk, 5.9; 95% confidence interval, 3.0–11.8). This difference may reflect poorer immunogenicity in HIV-infected infants.