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Studying adults aged 35 and 41 years who have received BCG vaccine and those who have not received it during childhood, Tel Aviv University researchers found no association between BCG…
Tedros and others caution that using BCG vaccine on health-care workers for COVID-19 should be only after safety and efficacy are tested through randomised controlled trials. BCG vaccine, which ramps…
Protection conferred by BCG vaccine against novel coronavirus is an interesting study and a plausible hypothesis but has been done early in the course of an epidemic and when the…
Changing the route of BCG vaccine administration from intradermal to intravenous and using a higher dosage showed vast improvement in vaccine efficacy. Nine of the 10 animals that received the…
Curcumin was found to enhance the efficacy of the BCG vaccine by increasing the number of central memory cells. Curcumin also helps in the activation of innate immune cells known…
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has won the Stop TB Kochon Prize for excellence in TB research and development. The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to individuals and/or…
In June this year, the Pune-based Serum Institute of India Pvt Limited will begin a Phase II/III vaccine trial for tuberculosis using a novel, recombinant BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine. The…
Indian researchers have been able to bring about more than 50-fold improvement in the efficacy of the commonly used TB vaccine — Bacillu Calmette Guerin (BCG) — by giving mice…
