Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccines
Data on Bacillus calmette-guerin vaccines published by investigators at Medical Research Council
Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 20th, 2008
New investigation results, 'The effect of tuberculin skin test and BCG vaccination on the expansion of PPD-specific IFN-gamma producing cells ex vivo,' are detailed in a study published in Vaccine. According to recent research from Banjul, Gambia, "Understanding the immunogenicity of BCG in a population where it has failed will facilitate the design of new TB vaccines. We assessed the immunogenicity of M. bovis BCG over 12 months by ELISPOT assay."
"Forty-one adolescents and young Gambian male adults received a tuberculin skin test (TST) which was followed one week later by BCG vaccination, but the 23 control subjects received neither of these. TST alone...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-02-20)
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