BCG Immunology Study: Protective immunity following neonatal BCG vaccination

Malawi, 2007 - 2010

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-BIS-2007-v1

Producer(s)

Dr Kate Watkins, Immunologist,

Collections

Karonga HDSS

Metadata

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BCG scar1 (bcgscar1)

Data file: bis_mother

Overview

Valid: 308

Invalid: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 254

End: 254

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

BCG scar survey

Literal question

BCG scar 1: Classify

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	None	33	10.7%
1	Yes	256	83.1%
2	Doubtful	18	5.8%
3	Not examined	1	0.3%
4	Blind review	0	0%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	2
Sysmiss		2

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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