TB Education and Training Resource Guide—BACILLE CALMETTE-GUERIN (BCG) AND OTHER VACCINES (Printable Version)

BCG and PPD
This fact sheet discusses the relationship between the BCG vaccine and the TB skin test. It discusses how and where BCG is used and explains that BCG may not always protect against TB and can result in a positive TB test (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2000).
Audience: health professionals
Format: fact sheet, 1 p
Language: English
Available from: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Tuberculosis Control, 305 South St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-983-6970; www.state.ma.us/dph/dphhome.htm

BCG Vaccine
This fact sheet, available online or via fax only, explains who should and who should not get vaccinated against TB. It also explains how to interpret tuberculin skin test results in people who have received the vaccination (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999).
Audience: health professionals, nurses, occupational health and infection control workers, physicians
Format: fact sheet, 2 pp
Language: English
Internet link: www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/dtbefax.htm.
Available from: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To receive this document by fax, call 888-CDC-FAXX (888-232-3299). At the prompt, request item #250120.

Blueprint for Tuberculosis Vaccine Development
This report, available online only, presents the recommendations and conclusions of a 1998 workshop to develop a national strategy for development of effective TB vaccines (National Institutes of Health, 2000).
Audience: health professionals
Format: report, 7 pp
Language: English
Internet link: www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/blueprint

Development of New Vaccines for Tuberculosis. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 47(RR-13):1-6, August 21, 1998
This guideline contains a strategic plan for the development of a TB vaccine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1998).
Audience: health professionals
Format: guideline, 15 pp
Language: English
Internet link: www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/mmwrhtml/maj_guide.htm. #Vaccines
Available from: CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP). Materials can be ordered in a number of ways: 1) By accessing the online order form at www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb. 2) by calling the CDC voice and fax information system (recording) toll-free at 888-232-3228, then pressing options 2, 5, 1, 2, 2; 3) by faxing a request for material to the NCHSTP Office of Communications at 404-639-8910; or 4) by mailing a request to the CDC NCHSTP Office of Communications at 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, MS E-07, Atlanta, GA 30333. Request item #99-5775.
and CDC National Prevention Information Network, PO Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003; www.cdcnpin.org. Request inventory item #M014
and Massachusetts Medical Society, 860 Winter St, Waltham Woods Corporate Center, Waltham, MA 02451-1411; 800-843-6356; www.massmed.org. Paper copies of single issues cost $5.25.

Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Use of Vaccines and Immune Globulins in Persons with Altered Immunocompetence. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 42(RR-04), April 9, 1993
This report summarizes current recommendations by the ACIP on the use of active and passive immunization for persons with altered immunocompetence (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1993).
Audience: health professionals, nurses, physicians
Format: report, 24 pp
Language: English
Internet link: www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/mmwrhtml/mmwr_bcg.htm
Available from: Massachusetts Medical Society, 860 Winter St, Waltham Woods Corporate Center, Waltham, MA 02451-1411; 800-843-6356; www.massmed.org. Paper copies of single issues cost $5.25.
and U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C. 20402; 866-512-1800; www.gpo.gov. GPO provides a CD-ROM containing MMWRs from 1991 to 1997 for $19. Request item #017-022-01418-1.

The Role of BCG Vaccine in the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in the United States. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 45(RR-4):1-18, April 26, 1996
This report replaces previous recommendations about the use of BCG vaccine for controlling TB in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1996).
Audience: health professionals, nurses, physicians
Format: report, 27 pp
Language: English
Internet link: www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/mmwrhtml/maj_guide.htm.
Available from: CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP). Materials can be ordered in a number of ways: 1) By accessing the online order form at www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb. 2) by calling the CDC voice and fax information system (recording) toll-free at 888-232-3228, then pressing options 2, 5, 1, 2, 2; 3) by faxing a request for material to the NCHSTP Office of Communications at 404-639-8910; or 4) by mailing a request to the CDC NCHSTP Office of Communications at 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, MS E-07, Atlanta, GA 30333. Request item #00-6573.
and CDC National Prevention Information Network, PO Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003; 800-458-5231; www.cdcnpin.org. Request inventory item #M022.
and Massachusetts Medical Society, 860 Winter St, Waltham Woods Corporate Center, Waltham, MA 02451-1411; 800-843-6356; www.massmed.org. Paper copies of single issues cost $5.25.
and U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C. 20402; 866-512-1800; www.gpo.gov. GPO provides a CD-ROM containing MMWRs from 1991 to 1997 for $19. Request item #017-022-01418-1.

Tuberculosis Vaccines: State of the Science
This report, available online only, presents a brief history of TB vaccine development and discusses the current state of TB vaccine research and development. It also discusses current challenges and emphasizes the importance of public-private collaboration (National Institutes of Health, 2001).
Audience: health professionals
Format: report, 8 pp
Language: English
Internet link: www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/tuberculosis/tbvaccine.htm.