100 years of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin immunotherapy: from cattle to COVID-19

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the most widely used vaccine worldwide and has been used to prevent tuberculosis for a century. BCG also stimulates an anti-tumour immune response, which urologists have harnessed for the treatment of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. A growing body of evidence in...

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Published in:	Nature reviews. Urology Vol. 18; no. 10; pp. 611 - 622
Main Authors:	Lobo, Niyati, Brooks, Nathan A, Zlotta, Alexandre R, Cirillo, Jeffrey D, Boorjian, Stephen, Black, Peter C, Meeks, Joshua J, Bivalacqua, Trinity J, Gontero, Paolo, Steinberg, Gary D, McConkey, David, Babjuk, Marko, Alfred Witjes, J, Kamat, Ashish M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Nature Publishing Group 01.10.2021
Subjects:	Adjuvants, Immunologic - history Animals BCG Vaccine - history Bladder cancer Cattle Coronaviruses COVID-19 - prevention & control COVID-19 Vaccines History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Humans Hypotheses Immunotherapy Immunotherapy - history Infant Pandemics Tuberculosis
ISSN:	1759-4812, 1759-4820, 1759-4820
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