1. Effect of BCG vaccination on proinflammatory responses in elderly individuals.
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Kumar, Nathella Pavan, Padmapriyadarsini, Chandrasekaran, Rajamanickam, Anuradha, Marinaik, Shrinivasa B., Nancy, Arul, Padmanaban, Srinivasan, Akbar, Nabila, Murhekar, Manoj, and Babu, Subash
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COVID-19 , *BCG vaccines , *OLDER people , *HAPTOGLOBINS , *MEDICAL personnel , *MEDICAL research , *RESPIRATORY infections - Abstract
The article presents a coronavirus research report on effect of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination on proinflammatory responses in elderly individuals. Topics include demonstrates the immunomodulatory properties of BCG vaccination and suggests its potential utility in nonspecific vaccination of COVID-19 by down-modulating pathogenic inflammatory responses; and Plasma levels of the aforementioned parameters were significantly lower in vaccinated individuals.
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- 2021
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