Publication date: Mar 25, 2025
Background: In Japan, the universal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization program for infants aged < 13 months remains in effect. Since 2005, the BCG vaccination history has been required to be reported, in addition to the clinical and treatment status of childhood tuberculosis (TB), through a notification system and made available as epidemiological data. Methods: To understand the epidemiology of childhood TB in Japan under the 2013 Bacillus BCG immunization program modification in Japan, we performed descriptive analysis on the national surveillance data. Results: The median percentage of annual vaccination coverage for infants aged
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Childhood | Aged |
| Japan | Bacillus |
| Mycobacterium | Bcg |
| Vaccination | Childhood |
| Clinical | |
| Data | |
| Epidemiology | |
| Immunization | |
| Incidence | |
| Infants | |
| Infectious | |
| Japan | |
| Preprint | |
| Tuberculosis | |
| Vaccination |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | infectious diseases |
| drug | DRUGBANK | BCG vaccine |
| disease | IDO | history |
| disease | MESH | tuberculosis |
| pathway | KEGG | Tuberculosis |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Coenzyme M |
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