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Human newborn bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccination and risk of tuberculosis disease: a case-control study

BACKGROUND: An incomplete understanding of the immunological mechanisms underlying protection against tuberculosis (TB) hampers the development of new vaccines against TB. We aimed to define host correlates of prospective risk of TB disease following bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination. METHOD...

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Autores principales: Fletcher, Helen A., Filali-Mouhim, Ali, Nemes, Elisa, Hawkridge, Anthony, Keyser, Alana, Njikan, Samuel, Hatherill, Mark, Scriba, Thomas J., Abel, Brian, Kagina, Benjamin M., Veldsman, Ashley, Agudelo, Nancy Marín, Kaplan, Gilla, Hussey, Gregory D., Sekaly, Rafick-Pierre, Hanekom, Willem A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27183822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0617-3