The BCG vaccine has a broad, stimulating effect on the immune system. BCG is frequently given to children, but a new study shows that elderly people also benefit from it. The BCG vaccine, an old ...

Children should be vaccinated against tuberculosis as soon as possible after birth in countries with a high incidence of the disease, according to a new meta-analysis. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) ...

In a group of older patients with a median of two comorbidities, COVID infections were reported in 4.2% patients who received the BCG vaccine compared with 3.7% of those given placebo (HR 1.12, 95% CI ...

In a recent study published in the PLOS ONE journal, researchers assessed the ecological association suggesting the efficacy of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination against coronavirus disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers from Spain have learned that receiving the bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine at birth may confer ...

The BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) tuberculosis vaccine boosts the production of immune cells, which may explain why it can protect newborn babies from dying of sepsis. Previous studies have shown ...

We report a case of successful management of a disseminated BCG infection in a child with a diagnosis of X-linked SCID undergoing allo-HSCT. A 2.5-year-old male child, born in a North-African country ...

The BCG vaccine has a broad, stimulating effect on the immune system. This gives it an effective preventive action against various infections - possibly also against COVID-19. New studies are ...