Isolated remote site musculoskeletal Mycobacterium bovis infections after BCG immunisation in immunocompetent children-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Isolated remote site musculoskeletal Mycobacterium bovis infections after BCG immunisation in immunocompetent children

Published:2024-08-29 Issue:8 Volume:53 Page:514-518
ISSN:0304-4602
Container-title:Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
language:en
Short-container-title:Ann Acad Med Singap

Author:

Fong Jiawen¹,Chia Dawn Sinn Yii¹,Chew Darryl Ee Ming²,Wong Kenneth Pak Leung²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery, Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore

2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore

Abstract

The Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) vaccine, derived from wild-type Mycobacterium bovis, is administered in an attenuated form to prevent Mycobacterium tuberculous (MTB) infections in children residing in endemic regions. Since the introduction of the Singapore Tuberculosis Elimination Programme in 1997—specifying mandatory BCG-immunisation at birth—the incidence fell drastically to 32.6 per 100,000 population in 2021,1 with the paediatric population contributing 2.1% of infections.2

Publisher

Academy of Medicine, Singapore

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