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Table 3 Estimated number of cases (cases averted) in the three strategies over 15 years

From: Evaluating the neonatal BCG vaccination programme in Ireland

Outcomes

BCGuniversal (cases averted)

BCGselective (cases averted)

BCGno vacc

Pulmonary TB

21.6 (31.4)

47.1 (5.9)

53.0

Extrapulmonary TB

6.6 (13.5)

17.6 (2.5)

20.1

TB meningitis

1.4 (1.9)

2.9 (0.4)

3.3

Total

29.6 (46.8)

67.6 (8.8)

76.4