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BCG vaccine: WHO position paper, February 2018 - Recommendations.
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Vaccine [Vaccine] 2018 Jun 07; Vol. 36 (24), pp. 3408-3410. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Mar 30. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This article presented the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations on the use of on Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine excerpted from the BCG vaccines: WHO position paper - February 2018 published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record [1]. This position paper replaces the 2004 WHO position paper on Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine [2] and the 2007 WHO revised BCG vaccination guidelines for infants at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection [3]. It incorporates recent developments in the tuberculosis (TB) field, provides revised guidance on the immunization of children infected with HIV, and re-emphasizes the importance of the birth dose. This position paper also includes recommendations for the prevention of leprosy. Footnotes to this paper provide a number of core references including references to grading tables that assess the quality of the scientific evidence, and to the evidence-to-recommendation tables. In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes; they summarize essential background information on diseases and vaccines, and conclude with WHO's current position on the use of vaccines in the global context. Recommendations on the use of cholera vaccines were discussed by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) in October 2017; evidence presented at these meetings can be accessed at: http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/meetings/2017/october/presentations&#95;background&#95;docs/en/.<br /> (Copyright © 2018 World Health Organization. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
BCG Vaccine supply & distribution
Child
Child, Preschool
HIV Infections prevention & control
Health Policy
Humans
Immunization Schedule
Infant
Leprosy prevention & control
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Tuberculosis immunology
Vaccination Coverage organization & administration
Young Adult
BCG Vaccine administration & dosage
Immunization Programs organization & administration
Public Health legislation & jurisprudence
Tuberculosis prevention & control
Vaccination legislation & jurisprudence
World Health Organization organization & administration
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-2518
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 24
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 29609965
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.03.009