Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccines
Research on Bacillus calmette-guerin vaccines described by scientists at Kuwait University, Department of Microbiology
Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 23rd, 2009
New research, 'Mycobacterial antigen-induced T helper type 1 (Th1) and Th2 reactivity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from diabetic and non-diabetic tuberculosis patients and Mycobacterium bovis bacilli Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-vaccinated healthy subjects,' is the subject of a report. "Patients with diabetes mellitus are more susceptible to tuberculosis (TB), and the clinical conditions of diabetic TB patients deteriorate faster than non-diabetic TB patients, but the immunological basis for this phenomenon is not understood clearly. Given the role of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) in providing protection against TB, we investigated whether CMI responses in diabetic TB patients are...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-09-23)
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