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Past, Present and Future of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccine Use in China
Vaccines, 2022 The BCG vaccine is prepared from a weakened strain of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), a bacterium closely related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which causes tuberculosis (TB).
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Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2022 To date, the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine has been the only medicinal product for active mass childhood immunisation against tuberculosis in the Russian Federation.
D. T. Levi +5 more
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Intranasal mucosal boosting with an adenovirus-vectored vaccine markedly enhances the protection of BCG-primed guinea pigs against pulmonary tuberculosis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Recombinant adenovirus-vectored (Ad) tuberculosis (TB) vaccine platform has demonstrated great potential to be used either as a stand-alone or a boost vaccine in murine models.
Zhou Xing +5 more
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Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2012 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is part of the expanded program of vaccination in Saudi Arabia. Lymphadenitis is the most common complication of the BCG vaccine.
Abdulkarim Abdullah Alrabiaah +4 more
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Overexpression of a Mycobacterium ulcerans Ag85B-EsxH Fusion Protein in Recombinant BCG Improves Experimental Buruli Ulcer Vaccine Efficacy. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 Buruli ulcer (BU) vaccine design faces similar challenges to those observed during development of prophylactic tuberculosis treatments. Multiple BU vaccine candidates, based upon Mycobacterium bovis BCG, altered Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU) cells ...
Bryan E Hart, Sunhee Lee
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Sleeping Beauty and the Story of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccine
mBio, 2016 Mycobacterium bovis BCG is the only available vaccine for protection against tuberculosis (TB). While BCG protects children from severe disease, it has little impact on pulmonary disease in adults. A recombinant BCG vaccine BCG ΔureC::hly (strain VPM1002)
Helen A. Fletcher
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Vaccines, 2021 Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) is the only live attenuated vaccine available against tuberculosis. The first BCG vaccination was done exactly 100 years ago, in 1921.
Stefan Panaiotov +5 more
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BCG vaccine reactivation after mRNA immunization against COVID-19: case report
Revista Médica de Minas Gerais, 2023 The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a live attenuated pathogen vaccine used to prevent severe types of tuberculosis. A related immunological event is its scar reactivation.
José Paulo Ribeiro Júnior +3 more
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Features of General Reactive Potential of the Body in Infants with BCG lymphadenitis
Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâ, 2014 Objective: integrated health assessment of infants with BCG-induced regional lymphadenitis. Material and Methods. The work was carried out on the academic basis of pediatric infectious departments of Donetsk region and Donetsk regional laboratory center ...
A.I. Bobrovitskaia +3 more
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BCG vaccination strategies against tuberculosis: updates and perspectives
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only licensed vaccine against tuberculosis (TB). However, BCG has variable efficacy and cannot completely prevent TB infection and transmission.
Mengjin Qu, Xiangmei Zhou, Hao Li
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