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BCG Vaccination Strategy for Preventaion against COVID-19: Hype or Hope?

2020-04-19

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The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine (BCG vaccine) designed to prevent tuberculosis in children has been shown to induce a trained immune response in the body to fight against bacteria as well as other parasites and viruses. This knowledge has been reciprocated to generate the idea that this vaccine can also offer protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2). Some recent pre-prin...

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Literature Corpus work: e3de8ba2-22eb-5e44-93cc-8d9cfd690746
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202004.0351.v1

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