Inner city tuberculosis and immunisation policy.

Inner city tuberculosis and immunization policy.

Asian children, excluding recently arrived immigrants, had a similar incidence of tuberculosis to white children in Leeds from 1982-6. Children living in the urban priority area were 2.6 times more likely to develop tuberculosis than those living elsewhere. Selection for infant BCG immunisation should not depend on ethnic group alone.

Immunisation practice and policy.

Immunisation has proved to be a generally safe and effective means of disease control, particularly where environmental approaches are impractical. Recent developments in vaccine production, aimed at selecting or synthesising in pure form the antigens needed to evoke a protective response, give hope of more effective and less toxic vaccines in future. Adequate trials of improved vaccines may, h...

City, ICT and Policy

New technologies tend to exert a profound influence on modern city life. This paper addresses the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the city. After a broad overview of the potential of ICT in a geographical setting and its possible impact on urban policy in regard to the ICT sector, the paper focusses attention on urban public policy in regard to the ICT sector. This s...

703Osteoarticular Tuberculosis in an Inner City University Medical Center: Epidemiology and Outcomes

Present Status of Immunisation against Tuberculosis

The discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch in 1882 and his classical demonstration, in 1891, of the effect of a second infection with tubercle bacilli in an already tuberculous guinea pig, which later came to be known as the ‘Koch phenomenon’, heralded scores of attempts to develop a specific immunising agent against tuberculosis, derived from the tubercle bacillus. The attempts were...