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Although over 2 billion people have been immunized with BCG, and it is currently an officially recommended vaccine in more than 180 countries, excluding the U.S., the efficacy of BCG as a vaccine against tuberculosis remains controversial. Prospective vaccine efficacy trials have shown that the pr...
Background: BCG vaccination is administered in infancy in most countries with the aim of providing protection against tuberculosis. There is increasing interest in the role of vitamin D in immunity to tuberculosis. This study objective was to determine if there was an association between circulating ...
analysis of COVID-19 data from countries with universal BCG vaccination, discontinued vaccination, and countries that never adopted BCG vaccination suggests that disease incidence and morbidity are reduced in countries with universal BCG immunization compared with those that have not adopted the vaccine....
BCG shortages have also affected European countries and led to changes in immunisation policies and BCG vaccine strains used [57]. Various strategies to reduce BCG wastage have been proposed including optimising the use of multidose BCG vaccine vials by centralising and cohorting BCG immunisations. ...
Correlation between COVID-19 Case fatality rate and percentage of BCG vaccination: Is it true the vaccine is protective? Background: The observations of some recent epidemiological studies offer hope for a reduced impact of COVID19 for countries which practice universal BCG v... AAR Mohamed-Husse...
However, other studies using a low dose of BCG vaccine in cattle have produced more encouraging results and field trials. In general, vaccination of cattle currently is not accepted in many countries because the vaccine could interfere with the skin reaction to the tuberculin test in the field ...
UK, although the vaccine is considered to have a variable efficacy in countries closer to the equator towards the prevention of pulmonary TB in adults8,9. Combining TB vaccination with drug treatment has been proposed to shorten treatment duration and prevent relapse, an approach known as ...
By contrast, European countries such as France, Italy, and the UK could suffer from the effects of the crisis well beyond 2020. In those countries, less international travel and weak local demand amid prolonged economic fallout from the crisis will continue to hurt sales of luxury goods. In ...
However, in populations immunised with a strain that causes fewer scars, scarring may reflect an individual's immune response to the vaccine rather than immunisation status, leading to many misclassifications. In countries using multiple strains, identifying individuals by scar status may give results...