Influences of the transmission resources, BCG vaccine and the malnutrition situation on the tuberculosis in children in Hai Phong
- Author:
Phuc Quang Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
tuberculosis
- MeSH:
Tuberculosis;
transmission;
Malnutrition;
child;
Mycobacterium bovis;
BCG Vaccine
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2001;263(9):70-75
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
-
Abstract:
A study on 3631 children with ages of 1-14 without the family transmission resource and 683 children with the family transmission resource in Hai Phong during 1992-1995 was carried out. Methods: direct interview of parents; direct examinations of the transmission resources, history of the respiratory diseases, measles, BCG scar, current body weight, the clinical examinations, X-ray, tuberculine reaction; and the basic tests. The results haves shown that the morbidity rate of tuberculosis in children with ages of 1-14 and exposured the transmission resource and without the transmission resource were 16.3% and 12%, respectively. The morbidity rate of tuberculosis in children exposured with the transmission resource without BCG scar. The morbidity rate of tuberculosis in children exposured with the transmission recource and malnutrion in grade II- III was 36.4%, higher 4.6 times than this in children without malnutrition and children without the transmission resources.
