[HTML][HTML] Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) and new TB vaccines: Specific, cross-mycobacterial and off-target effects

N Fritschi, N Curtis, N Ritz - Paediatric respiratory reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) vaccine was developed over a century ago and
has become one of the most used vaccines without undergoing a modern vaccine …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine development against tuberculosis before and after Covid-19

SHE Kaufmann - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has not only shaped awareness of the impact of infectious
diseases on global health. It has also provided instructive lessons for better prevention …

Postinfectious epigenetic immune modifications—a double-edged sword

AR DiNardo, MG Netea… - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Effects of Infection on Natural Immunity Antigen-nonspecific host defenses are altered by
infections, with epigenetic changes in the effector cells of natural immunity. Some of these …

Recent advances in the development of protein-and peptide-based subunit vaccines against tuberculosis

C Bellini, K Horvati - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) herald of the “End TB Strategy” has defined goals
and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care, and control to end the global tuberculosis …

Safety and immunogenicity of the GamTBvac, the recombinant subunit tuberculosis vaccine candidate: a phase II, multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo …

AP Tkachuk, EN Bykonia, LI Popova, DA Kleymenov… - Vaccines, 2020 - mdpi.com
GamTBvac is a candidate tuberculosis vaccine with two fusion proteins, containing Ag85a,
ESAT6, CFP10, and a dextran-binding domain (DBD). Phase II of a double-blind …

[HTML][HTML] Precision vaccine development: cues from natural immunity

S Barman, D Soni, B Brook, E Nanishi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Traditional vaccine development against infectious diseases has been guided by the
overarching aim to generate efficacious vaccines normally indicated by an antibody and/or …

Spore-FP1 tuberculosis mucosal vaccine candidate is highly protective in guinea pigs but fails to improve on BCG-conferred protection in non-human primates

AD White, AC Tran, L Sibley, C Sarfas… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis remains a major health threat globally and a more effective vaccine than the
current Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) is required, either to replace or boost it. The Spore …

Emerging prevention and treatment strategies to control COVID-19

VK Singh, A Mishra, S Singh, P Kumar, M Singh… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has now become a serious global threat after …

Is mapping the BCG vaccine‐induced immune responses the key to improving the efficacy against tuberculosis?

R Kuan, K Muskat, B Peters… - Journal of Internal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the century‐old Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG)
vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) has been re‐evaluated for its capacity to stem the global …

Vaccination with BCGΔBCG1419c protects against pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB and is safer than BCG

MJ Aceves-Sánchez, MA Flores-Valdez… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
A single intradermal vaccination with an antibiotic-less version of BCGΔBCG1419c given to
guinea pigs conferred a significant improvement in outcome following a low dose aerosol …