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Loss of bacillus Calmette-Guérin viability adversely affects the direct response of urothelial carcinoma cells to bacillus Calmette-Guérin exposure.
The Journal of urology - 1 Mar 2014
Shah Gopitkumar, Zhang Guangjian, Chen Fanghong, Cao YanLi, Kalyanaraman Balaraman, See William
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PURPOSE: The attenuated mycobacterium bacillus Calmette-Guérin is widely used as intravesical immunotherapy for nonmuscle invasive urothelial carcinoma. Previous studies demonstrated that in the laboratory and clinical settings bacillus Calmette-Guérin viability is a variable that correlates with antitumor efficacy. We evaluated how loss of viability impacted a number of molecular and phenotypic intermediate end...
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