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Neonatal BCG: a time for change
Toldi, Gergely Hussain, Abid Murinye Magwenzi, Mercy Satodia, Prakash Radcliffe, Ruth
Toldi, Gergely
Hussain, Abid
Murinye Magwenzi, Mercy
Satodia, Prakash
Radcliffe, Ruth
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2022-08-25
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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.
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Pillay T, Toldi G, Hussain A, et al. (2022) Neonatal BCG: a time for change. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition. doi:10.1136/archdischild2021-323239
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36008111 (pubmed)
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-323239
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0003-9888
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1743-0593