Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine -- named for its developers -- contains inactivated mycobacteria that infect cattle and remains the only vaccination strategy against the infection in humans.

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

With only seven members, iGEM Eindhoven forms a small but determined student team that aims to help shape the future of ...

In low risk bladder cancers, chemotherapy is given but in intermediate to high risk, BCG vaccination is given. It has been shown that this vaccine prevents the progression of early stages to ...

Jane Akinyi (right) holding her baby while a medic adminster a Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine(BCG) vaccine at Forest Dispensary in Nakuru on January 28,2019.Most of the hospitals in the ...

On Monday, the BMC started the much-delayed pilot project to provide the anti-tuberculosis (TB) BCG vaccine to the high-risk adult population from 12 wards of the city. In the rest of the state ...

As one of six federally funded Centers for Vaccine Development ... and molecular biology. Current research projects include development and evaluation of respiratory virus vaccines, bacterial ...