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BCG vaccination-induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis.

ABSTRACT: Death from sepsis in the neonatal period remains a serious threat for millions. Within 3 days of administration, bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination can reduce mortality from neonatal sepsis in human newborns, but the underlying mechanism for this rapid protection is unknown. We found that BCG was also protective in a mouse model of neonatal polymicrobial sepsis, where it induced granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) within hours of administration. This was necessary and sufficient to drive emergency granulopoiesis (EG), resulting in a marked increase in neutrophils. This increase in neutrophils was directly and quantitatively responsible for protection from sepsis. Rapid induction of EG after BCG administration also occurred in three independent cohorts of human neonates.

SUBMITTER: Brook B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8008103 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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BCG vaccination-induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis.

Brook Byron B Harbeson Danny J DJ Shannon Casey P CP Cai Bing B He Daniel D Ben-Othman Rym R Francis Freddy F Huang Joe J Varankovich Natallia N Liu Aaron A Bao Winnie W Bjerregaard-Andersen Morten M Schaltz-Buchholzer Frederik F Sanca Lilica L Golding Christian N CN Larsen Kristina Lindberg KL Levy Ofer O Kampmann Beate B Tan Rusung R Charles Adrian A Wynn James L JL Shann Frank F Aaby Peter P Benn Christine S CS Tebbutt Scott J SJ Kollmann Tobias R TR Amenyogbe Nelly N

Science translational medicine 20200501 542

Death from sepsis in the neonatal period remains a serious threat for millions. Within 3 days of administration, bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination can reduce mortality from neonatal sepsis in human newborns, but the underlying mechanism for this rapid protection is unknown. We found that BCG was also protective in a mouse model of neonatal polymicrobial sepsis, where it induced granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) within hours of administration. This was necessary and sufficient ...[more]

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BCG vaccination-induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis.

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BCG vaccination-induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis.

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