Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Maria Tsilika, Simone Moorlag, Nikolaos Antonakos, Antigone Kotsaki, Jorge Domínguez-Andrés, Evdoxia Kyriazopoulou, Theologia Gkavogianni, Maria-Evangelia Adami, Georgia Damoraki, Panagiotis Koufargyris, Athanassios Karageorgos, Amalia Bolanou, Hans Koenen, Reinout van Crevel, Dionyssia-Irene Droggiti, George Renieris, Antonios Papadopoulos, Mihai G Netea

Activate Randomized Clinical Trial of BCG Vaccination against Infection in the Elderly

Cell 2020 Oct 15;183(2):315-323
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.051Download pdf 🡇

Funding

The study was funded in part by the Horizon 2020 grant ImmunoSep (#847422) and in part by the Hellenic Institute for the Study of Sepsis.

Keywords: BCG; cytokines; elderly; epigenetic modifications; infection incidence; respiratory infections; trained immunity; vaccination
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