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Parenteral BCG vaccine induces lung-resident memory macrophages and trained immunity via the gut-lung axis. [PDF]
Nat Immunol, 2022 Aside from centrally induced trained immunity in the bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood by parenteral vaccination or infection, evidence indicates that mucosal-resident innate immune memory can develop via a local inflammatory pathway following ...
Jeyanathan M +15 more
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JAMA Netw Open, 2023 Key Points Question Does the BCG vaccine have a protective association with the risk of Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD)? Findings In this cohort study of 6467 patients with non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer, treatment with intravesical ...
Weinberg MS +12 more
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The BCG Vaccine for COVID-19: First Verdict and Future Directions
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Despite of the rapid development of the vaccines against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), it will take several months to have enough doses and the proper infrastructure to vaccinate a good proportion of the world ...
Maria Gonzalez-Perez +6 more
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BCG Vaccine-The Road Not Taken. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine has been used for over one hundred years to protect against the most lethal infectious agent in human history, tuberculosis. Over four billion BCG doses have been given and, worldwide, most newborns receive BCG.
Dow CT, Kidess L.
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Genomic characteristics of two most widely used BCG vaccine strains: Danish 1331 and Pasteur 1173P2 [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) refers to a group of vaccine strains with unique genetic characteristics. BCG is the only available vaccine for preventing tuberculosis (TB).
Mahla Asadian +3 more
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Vaccine, 2015 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infection leads to active tuberculosis (TB), a disease that kills one human every 18 seconds. Current therapies available to combat TB include chemotherapy and the preventative vaccine Mycobacterium bovis Bacille ...
Jordi Torrelles +2 more
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Protection by BCG Vaccine Against Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2014 Punam Mangtani +2 more
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Culture filtrate proteins from BCG act as adjuvants for cytotoxic T lymphocyte induction
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Mycobacterium bovis bacilli Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a licensed vaccine against tuberculosis. It requires attenuated live bacteria to be effective, possibly because actively secreted proteins play a critical role in inducing anti-tuberculosis immunity ...
Satoru Mizuno +7 more
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TUBERCULIN RESPONSE AND SCAR FORMATION IN BCG VACCINATED 7-YEARS OLD SCHOOLCHILDREN IN SOFIA, BULGARIA [PDF]
Journal of IMAB, 2015 This study has been designed to evaluate safety and efficacy of BCG vaccine in school-entering children in terms of tuberculin response to PPD and scar formation as indicators for successful vaccination.
Tzvetelina Stefanova
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A place for neutrophils in the beneficial pathogen-agnostic effects of the BCG vaccine
Vaccine, 2021 The BCG vaccine has long been recognized for reducing the risk to suffer from infectious diseases unrelated to its target disease, tuberculosis. Evidence from human trials demonstrate substantial reductions in all-cause mortality, especially in the first
Byron Brook +4 more
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