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SUBMITTER: Rajarshi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7255206 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rajarshi Keshav K Chatterjee Aroni A Ray Shashikant S
Medicine in drug discovery 20200526
The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine (BCG vaccine) designed to prevent tuberculosis in children has been shown to induce a adaptive immune response in the body to fight against bacteria as well as other parasites and viruses. This knowledge has been reciprocated to generate the idea that this vaccine can also offer protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2). Some recent pre-print articles have highlighted that countries with mass BCG immunizations seems to ha ...[more]