Table 1.

Different BCG vaccine strains available worldwide.

Sr. No.	BCG vaccine strains	Lost RD regions	Reference
[1]	BCG Tokyo/Japan	RD1	Tang et al., 2008; Lin et al., 2011
[2]	BCG Danish/Denmark	RD1, RD2	Shi et al., 2010; Rahman et al., 2012
[3]	BCG China/Shanghai	RD1, RD2	Deng et al., 2012
[4]	BCG Prague	RD1, RD2	Reece et al., 2011; Farinacci et al., 2012
[5]	BCG Pasteur	RD1, RD2, RD14, nRD18	Tang et al., 2008; Sali et al., 2010
[6]	BCG Tice	RD1, RD2, nRD18	Hoft et al., 2008; Tullius et al., 2008
[7]	BCG Glaxo	RD1, RD2	Zhang et al., 2013
[8]	BCG Connaught	RD15, RD18	Witjes et al., 2016

^∗RD represents a region of difference.