Background BCG vaccines are given to more than 100 million children every year, but there
is considerable debate regarding the effectiveness of BCG vaccination in preventing …

Abstract Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) is the most widely used vaccine worldwide and
has been used to prevent tuberculosis for a century. BCG also stimulates an anti-tumour …

COVID-19 has spread to most countries in the world. Puzzlingly, the impact of the disease is
different in different countries. These differences are attributed to differences in cultural …

BACKGROUND Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
caused more than 1 million deaths worldwide; thus, there is an urgent need to develop …

Background. Randomized trials assessing BCG vaccine protection against tuberculosis
have widely varying results, for reasons that are not well understood. Methods. We …

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination may reduce the risk of a range of infectious
diseases, and if so, it could protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Here, we …

A number of new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines have been or are entering clinical trials, which
include genetically modified mycobacteria, mycobacterial antigens delivered by viral …

Tuberculosis represents the leading global cause of death from an infectious agent.
Controlling the tuberculosis epidemic thus represents an urgent global public health priority …

Tuberculosis (TB) is still responsible for 2 million deaths every year despite being a treatable
airborne infectious disease.“Consumption “and “Phthisis “were terms historically used to …

There is a need for safe and effective platform vaccines to protect against coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. In this randomized, double …