You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letter
Tuberculous meningitis: more evidence for protective effect of BCG
  1. M A Anjay1,
  2. P Anoop2
  1. 1Paediatrics, Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, Keighley, West Yorkshire, UK
  2. 2Paediatric Haemato-oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Anjay M A Pillai
    Flat 32, Teal House, Skipton Road, Eastburn, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 8US, UK; anjayma{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2006.109363

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Walker et al1 rightly concluded that the bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination does have a noteworthy protective effect against tuberculous meningitis (TBM). However, it might be worth pointing out that the analysis does not include a few recent studies, which lead to the same conclusion based on robust …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests: None declared.