Vaccines and Dementia: Part I. Non-Specific Immune Boosting with BCG: History, Ligands, and Receptors

CL Greenblatt, R Lathe - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2024 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Vaccines such as Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) can apparently defer dementia
onset with an efficacy better than all drugs known to date, as initially reported by Gofrit et …

Integrated organ immunity: a path to a universal vaccine

B Pulendran - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Here, I introduce the concept of 'integrated organ immunity'to explain how the innate and
adaptive immune systems and non-haematopoietic cells can interact in tissues to generate …

Co-infection of mice with SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis limits early viral replication but does not affect mycobacterial loads

PJ Baker, EP Amaral, E Castro, AC Bohrer… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Viral co-infections have been implicated in worsening tuberculosis (TB) and during the
COVID-19 pandemic, the global rate of TB-related deaths has increased for the first time in …

[HTML][HTML] BCG mediated protection of the lung against experimental SARS-CoV-2 infection

KL Hilligan, S Namasivayam, A Sher - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The observation of reduced COVID-19 incidence and severity in populations receiving
neonatal intradermal BCG vaccination vaccine raised the question of whether BCG can …