NONMUSCLE INVASIVE TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA OF URINARY BLADDER – ADJUVANT INTRAVESICAL THERAPIES AFTER TRANSURETHRAL TUMOR RESECTION [PDF]
Romanian Medical Journal, 2017 Introduction. More than 70% of all bladder cancers are nonmuscle invasive involving only the mucosa and the submucosa. A large percentage of patients present local recurrence after endoscopic surgery, and many of them progress to muscle invasive disease ...
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The effect of birth weight and gestational age on BCG-induced immune responses in infants following BCG vaccination [PDF]
, 2010 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-114).Bacillus Calmette?Gu?rin (BCG), the only currently licensed tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, provides variable efficacy. Despite the use of BCG, TB remains a global health problem.
Dube, Frederick
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Serendipity and strategy in rapid innovation
Nature Communications, 2017 Organizations can take different approaches to innovation: they can either follow a strategic process or a serendipitous perspective. Here Fink et al. develop a statistical model to analyse how components combine to obtain a product and thus explain the ...
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Intravescical instillation of Calmette-Guérin bacillus and COVID-19 risk
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 It has been theorized that Calmette-Guérin bacillus may prevent or reduce the severity of COVID-19 through a nonspecific stimulation of the immune system. A preliminary assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and outcomes among 2803 individuals affected
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South African Journal of Radiology, 2021 Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is used as an adjuvant treatment of bladder cancer. Systemic BCG infection occurs in less than 1% of cases, and pulmonary involvement is even rarer (0.3% – 0.7%), with a favourable prognosis.
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Open Multi-dose Vaccine Vials: Use or Discard? [PDF]
Pediatric Infectious Disease, 2022 Multi-dose vials are useful and economical when large numbers of patients need to be immunized. These multi-dose vials are invaluable in the National Immunization Programme vaccination days, as they save time and effort and also are economically viable ...
Sumitha Nayak
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Boosting BCG with recombinant modified vaccinia ankara expressing antigen 85A: Different boosting intervals and implications for efficacy trials [PDF]
, 2007 Objectives. To investigate the safety and immunogenicity of boosting BCG with modified vaccinia Ankara expressing antigen 85A (MVA85A), shortly after BCG vaccination, and to compare this first with the immunogenicity of BCG vaccination alone and second
Whelan, KT +35 more
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The Effect of Stress, BCG Vaccination,and Combination of Stress-BCG Vaccination to The Ability of Macrophage to Bind with CD4+ T Cells in BALB/c Mice [PDF]
, 2006 The Effect of Stress, BCG Vaccination,and Combination of Stress-BCG Vaccination to The Ability of Macrophage to Bind with CD4+ T Cells in BALB/c Mice Rahajeng N. Tunjung*, Dwi Pudjonarko** Background.
Tunjung, Rahajeng_N.
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The staging of re-TURB is crucial in predicting the response to BCG therapy in patients with T1 high-grade bladder cancer [PDF]
Investigative and Clinical UrologyPurpose: This study aimed to evaluate whether the pathological findings from repeat transurethral resection of bladder (re-TURB) predict Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) response in patients with T1 high-grade bladder cancer.
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is known to have “bystander benefits” in protecting against heterologous infections; interim analysis of the “ACTIVATE” trial shows protection against respiratory infections in the elderly population.
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