[BCG and infants with a high risk of tuberculosis: a study of the vaccination rate in Marseille after suspension of the BCG requirement].

Objectives: The obligation for BCG vaccination, suspended in July 2007, was replaced by a vaccination targeting children with a high risk of tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to assess the vaccination rate of infants living Marseilles and its suburbs who had criteria for BCG vaccination.

Material And Methods: This observational study consisted in interviewing the parents of children born after the suspension of the obligatory BCG vaccination and admitted for a medical visit at the Pediatric Emergency Department of the Timone-Enfants University Hospital between 1 December 2008 and 31 March 2009.