Human Newborn Bacille Calmette–Guérin Vaccination and Risk of Tuberculosis Disease: A Case-Control Study
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Date
2016
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BMC medicine
Abstract
An incomplete understanding of the immunological mechanisms underlying protection against tuberculosis (TB) hampers the development of new vaccines against TB. We aimed to define host correlates of prospective risk of TB disease following bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination.
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Keywords
Tuberculosis, Vaccine, Correlates of risk, Systems biology
Citation
Fletcher, H. A., Filali-Mouhim, A., Nemes, E., Hawkridge, A., Keyser, A., Njikan, S., ... & BCG study team. (2016). Human newborn bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccination and risk of tuberculosis disease: a case-control study. BMC medicine, 14, 1-13.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0617-3