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. 2024 Jan 23;109(1):19-24.
doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323239.

Neonatal BCG: a time for change

Thillagavathie Pillay  1   2 , Gergely Toldi  3 , Abid Hussain  4 , Mercy Murinye Magwenzi  5 , Prakash Satodia  6   7 , Ruth Radcliffe  8
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Neonatal BCG: a time for change

Thillagavathie Pillay et al. Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. .

Abstract

The BCG vaccination programme in the UK is risk based and has usually been given to eligible babies soon after birth. On advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, NHS England and Improvement recently revised the timing of this vaccination to 28 days after birth or soon thereafter. In this article, we highlight the change in timing of vaccination, the rationale and barriers to BCG uptake that this change may pose.

Keywords: allergy and immunology; communicable diseases; infectious disease medicine; neonatology; paediatrics.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
SCID screening and BCG administration flowchart for England. SCID, severe combined immunodeficiency; TREC, T cell receptor excision circles.
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