Sentences with phrase «tuberculosis vaccine bcg»

We are also interested in the study of the roles of caspase - 2 in host responses induced by other vaccines (e.g., tuberculosis vaccine BCG).

Studies in several countries have demonstrated that the tuberculosis vaccine BCG, when given early in life, confers some protection against acute leukaemia (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol 96, p 389).

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The study, «The efficacy of the BCG vaccine against newly emerging clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,» was published in the journal PLOS One in September.

Orme and his research team in Fort Collins investigated whether the existing vaccine for TB, which goes by the acronym BCG (bacille Calmette - Guerin), worked equally well against different clinical strains of tuberculosis.

Less than 5 per cent of the world's children are fully immunised when you add BCG (for tuberculosis), measles, rubella, polio, hepatitis B (hep B), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.

Although the immune mechanisms implicated in the development of childhood asthma are not fully understood, some studies seem to suggest that the BCG vaccine, used in tuberculosis prevention, may have a protective effect on childhood asthma.

And the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis can stimulate this memory.

Shortly after the introduction of the BCG vaccine it was noticed that not only tuberculosis occurred less frequently but that young children also died less due to other pathogens.

An earlier form of the vaccine was used in the DarDar Trial, a seven - year study in Tanzania sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health involving patients with HIV infection who at birth had received BCG, the current tuberculosis vaccine.

BCG, a vaccine against tuberculosis, was discovered in the 1920s and is one of the most used vaccines worldwide.

«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.

The study, «The efficacy of the BCG vaccine against newly emerging clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,» was published in September.

Research Focus: My research project focuses on the T cell response of mycobacterium tuberculosis to further understand how the current BCG vaccine can be improved.