Saving lives by training innate immunity with bacille Calmette- Guérin vaccine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17317-17318

  Aaby, Peter ^a   Benn, Christine Stabell ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOMA; MELANOMA; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BCG VACCINE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MONOCYTES; NOD2 SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

EID: 84867919836     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215761109     Document Type: Note

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