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Tuberculosis: prevention, vaccine

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • BCG vaccination: An update on current Australian practices [2020]

BRICS countries

• Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
  • Distribution of HLA-DRB1 alleles in BRICS countries with a high tuberculosis burden: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Canada

• BMC Public Health
  • A systematic review of BCG vaccination policies among high-risk groups in low TB-burden countries: implications for vaccination strategy in Canadian indigenous communities [2019]

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Prevention of Tuberculosis Reactivation [2021]
  • Prevention of Tuberculosis: A Review of Guidelines [2020]
  • Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccination: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2020]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 7th Edition: 2014 – Prevention and control of Tuberculosis transmission in health care and other settings [2014]
  • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards 7th Edition: 2014 – Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination in Canada [2014]

• Vaccine
  • Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination patterns in the province of Québec, Canada, 1956–1974 [2017]

China

• Lancet Global Health
  • Age-targeted tuberculosis vaccination in China and implications for vaccine development: a modelling study [2019]

Europe

• European Respiratory Journal
  • Bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccination: the current situation in Europe [2014]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Systematic review on tuberculosis transmission on aircraft and update of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control risk assessment guidelines for tuberculosis transmitted on aircraft (RAGIDA-TB) [2016]

France

• EuroSurveillance
  • Impact of the BCG vaccination policy on tuberculous meningitis in children under 6 years in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2011 [2015]

Guinea-Bissau

• BMJ Global Health
  • Disregarding the restrictive vial-opening policy for BCG vaccine in Guinea-Bissau: impact and cost-effectiveness for tuberculosis mortality and all-cause mortality in children aged 0-4 years [2021]

India

• BMJ Global Health
  • Tuberculosis preventive treatment: the next chapter of tuberculosis elimination in India [2018]

Indonesia

• Vaccines
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of BCG Vaccination against Tuberculosis in Indonesia: A Model-Based Study [2020]

International

• American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Vaccination and All-Cause Child Mortality From 1985 to 2011: Global Evidence From the Demographic and Health Surveys [2015]

• Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Tuberculosis infection status and risk factors among health workers: an updated systematic review [2021]

• BCG World Atlas
  • BCG World Atlas

• BMC Medicine
  • The potential impact of BCG vaccine supply shortages on global paediatric tuberculosis mortality [2016]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Tracking changes in national BCG vaccination policies and practices using the BCG World Atlas [2022]

• Frontiers in Immunology
  • DNA and RNA vaccines against tuberculosis: a scoping review of human and animal studies [2024]

• International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • TB preventive treatment in high- and intermediate-incidence countries: research needs for scale-up [2021]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Review of Current Tuberculosis Human Infection Studies for Use in Accelerating Tuberculosis Vaccine Development: A Meeting Report [2024]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Infant BCG vaccination and risk of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis throughout the life course: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis [2022]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment [2023]
  • The BCG World Atlas: A Database of Global BCG Vaccination Policies and Practices [2011]

Iran

• Advanced Biomedical Research
  • Adverse effects of BCG vaccine 1173 P2 in Iran: A meta-analysis [2016]

Ireland

• Archives of Public Health
  • Evaluating the neonatal BCG vaccination programme in Ireland [2016]

• Health Information and Quality Authority
  • HTA of BCG Vaccination Programme [2015]

Italy

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Recommendations for pediatric tuberculosis vaccination in Italy [2015]

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
  • Current preventive policies and practices against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and tuberculosis targeted for workers from hospitals of the Sardinia Region, Italy [2016]

Low and middle income countries

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Safety and efficacy of tuberculosis vaccine candidates in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of randomised controlled clinical trials [2023]

• PharmacoEconomics
  • Inclusion of Additional Unintended Consequences in Economic Evaluation: A Systematic Review of Immunization and Tuberculosis Cost-Effectiveness Analyses [2021]

• Rural and Remote Health
  • What tuberculosis infection control measures are effective in resource-constrained primary healthcare facilities? A systematic review of the literature [2023]

• World Health Organization
  • Funding a tuberculosis-free future: an investment case for screening and preventive treatment [2024]

New Zealand

• Starship
  • Immunisation - BCG [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research
  • BCG vaccine in Korea [2013]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Incidence of tuberculosis disease in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis infection after screening: A population-based cohort study in South Korea [2024]

Saudi Arabia

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Tuberculosis and mass gatherings—opportunities for defining burden, transmission risk, and the optimal surveillance, prevention, and control measures at the annual Hajj pilgrimage [2016]

Sierra Leone

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends and inequalities in BCG immunisation coverage among one-year-olds in Sierra Leone, 2008-2019 [2024]

South Africa

• Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
  • Modelling the cost-effectiveness of a new infant vaccine to prevent tuberculosis disease in children in South Africa [2014]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Current Guidelines for Protecting Health Workers from Occupational Tuberculosis Are Necessary, but Not Sufficient: Towards a Comprehensive Occupational Health Approach [2020]

United Kingdom

• EuroSurveillance
  • Estimating the effect of the 2005 change in BCG policy in England: a retrospective cohort study, 2000 to 2015 [2019]

• Thorax
  • The impact of BCG vaccination on tuberculin skin test responses in children is age dependent: evidence to be considered when screening children for tuberculosis infection [2016]

• UK Health Security Agency
  • BCG vaccination programme

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: tuberculosis preventive treatment: web annex A: pharmacokinetics modelling and simulation studies for dosages of 6Lfx and 3HP [2024]
  • WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis Module 1: prevention - tuberculosis preventive treatment, second edition [2024]
  • WHO global framework to prepare for country introduction of new TB vaccines for adults and adolescents [2024]
  • WHO evidence considerations for vaccine policy development for tuberculosis vaccines intended for adults and adolescents [2024]
  • WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis Module 1: prevention - tuberculosis preventive treatment, second edition [2024]
  • Tuberculosis preventive treatment: rapid communication [2024]
  • WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: infection prevention and control [2023]
  • Report of the technical consultation on innovative clinical trial designs for evaluating new TB preventive treatments, virtual meeting, 15-17 September 2021 [2022]
  • An investment case for new tuberculosis vaccines [2022]
  • WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: tuberculosis preventive treatment [2020]
  • WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: tuberculosis preventive treatment [2020]
  • Target product profiles for tuberculosis preventive treatment [2020]
  • Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination and COVID-19 [2020]
  • WHO preferred product characteristics for new tuberculosis vaccines [2018]
  • Tuberculosis (BCG) vaccines: WHO position paper – February 2018 [2018]
  • The immunological basis for immunization series: module 5: tuberculosis, update 2021 [2011]
  • International collaborative study to evaluate and establish WHO reference reagents for BCG vaccine of three different substrains [2009]
  • Tuberculosis and air travel : guidelines for prevention and control, 3rd ed [2008]
  • Preventing TB
  • BCG immunization coverage among 1-year-olds (%)

WHO South-East Asia Region

• BMC Medicine
  • The potential impact of preventive therapy against tuberculosis in the WHO South-East Asian Region: a modelling approach [2020]

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • A situational analysis of programmatic management of TB preventive treatment in the WHO South-East Asia Region [2020]

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