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Anticipating Knowledge Applicability in Open Science Through Recycling, Mimicking, and Shortcutting
ABSTRACT Open science literature scrutinizes how organizations provide access to knowledge. Yet, much less is known about how organizations pursuing open science for societal impact anticipate knowledge applicability—that shared knowledge is reusable for other organizations and individuals, and enables open social innovation.
Konstantin Hondros +3 more
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The most recent guidelines on the control and prevention of tuberculosis1 recommend that “individuals working as health care workers, irrespective of age, who are previously unvaccinated and who are negative or Heaf grade 1 on tuberculin testing, should receive BCG vaccination”.
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ABSTRACT Objectives Human resource shortages create bottlenecks to preventive maternal and child health service provision in low‐resource settings, making ad‐hoc service rationing at the point of care necessary. Little is known about how healthcare providers prioritise.
Anne‐Sophie Sparresø Bærentzen +5 more
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Tuberculosis vaccine: pipeline approaches and future prospective [PDF]
Tuberculosis (TB), despite anti-mycobacterial therapies and vaccine, is a deadly infectious disease with about 12 million incident cases worldwide. Existing Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is unquestionably inexpensive, safe and effective ...
Ankita Singh +2 more
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The influence of BCG on vaccine responses – a systematic review
Introduction: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is one of the most widely used vaccines worldwide. In addition to providing protection against tuberculosis, it has non-specific (heterologous) immunomodulatory effects.
Petra Zimmermann, Nigel Curtis
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Hyperkeratosis of (a) the footpads and (b) the nasal planum. ABSTRACT Background Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) due to Leishmania infantum remains common, and veterinarians do not always follow scientifically sound approaches for diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Objectives To provide consensus guidelines for diagnosis and evidence‐based guidelines for
Manolis N. Saridomichelakis +9 more
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Culturally Responsive Surgical Care for Older People and Family Carers: A Dyadic Analysis
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to explore the perspectives and experiences of ethnically diverse older patients and family carers when undergoing a surgical procedure. Exploratory qualitative research design. Semi‐structured interviews with six patient‐carer dyads and three individuals, totaling 15 participants.
Charmaine G. Bonus +2 more
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Do successful tuberculosis vaccines need to be immunoregulatory rather than merely Th1-boosting? [PDF]
Tuberculosis vaccine candidates are entering clinical studies in areas where BCG fails. This is a high-risk strategy. We suggest that geographical variation in the efficacy of BCG is related to the presence in developing countries of a cross-reactive ...
Dheda, K, Rook, GAW, Zumla, A
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The whole genome sequence of Polish vaccine strain Mycobacterium bovis BCG Moreau
Currently, tuberculosis immunoprophylaxis is based solely on Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination, and some of the new potential tuberculosis vaccines are based on the BCG genome. Therefore, it is reasonable to analyze the genomes of individual BCG
Katarzyna Krysztopa-Grzybowska +9 more
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