Intravenous BCG vaccine with a built-in kill-switch was found to be at least as effective as regular tuberculosis vaccine in ...

A new tuberculosis vaccine that self-destructs to enhance safety has shown promising results in macaque monkeys, providing ...

The in-built in protection mechanisms offer a safer and more effective way to combat the deadliest disease of 2024.

Scientists have developed a breakthrough mechanism that makes the intravenous Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) tuberculosis ...

The antibody treatment, sasanlimab, in combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine met the main goal of the study ...

A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and protection against tuberculosis (TB) in ...

A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and protection against tuberculosis (TB ...

Health experts in Kenya have raised an alarm over the severe shortage of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the life-saving childhood vaccine that has been out of stock in government stores and hospitals ...

While unvaccinated macaque monkeys exhibited signs of severe lung inflammation and disease following the Mycobacterium  tuberculosis infection (warm colors indicate inflammation and disease, bottom ...

Indeed, the BCG vaccine was invented whether the leprosy world asked for it or not; and it has not been necessary to consider the need for neonatal BCG vaccination to prevent leprosy, or to ...

There is consistent evidence that BCG protects against leprosy ... analysis to be carried out to assess the difference of vaccine protection conferred for children vaccinated before 15 years ...