Sustained tuberculosis infection rates among adolescents were not lower following BCG revaccination vs placebo.

Getting the BCG shot in the trial did induce T-cell response but without an impact on sustained conversion to a positive QuantiFERON-TB ... QFT test conversion. "Given that a lack of vaccine ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination is not efficacious for preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, defined by sustained QuantiFERON-TB (QFT) test conversion ...

Florida recorded 681 cases of TB in 2024, about 9% more than the previous year, federal data shows. California had the highest number of reported TB cases in 2024, with 2,100 cases. More than 30 other ...

SHINGLES is a painful skin rash caused by the same virus ... Can I get it? THE BCG vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) is available on the NHS, but it's not routinely offered to everyone.

Panic has erupted at a high school in New York state after a student brought the deadliest disease in the world into school.

In the end, researchers discovered the vaccine boosted the immune response from Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment, a common immunotherapy treatment for bladder cancer patients. After five years ...

Delaying BCG vaccination to the age of 6 months can have both potential benefits and risks in terms of TB prevention in the general population ... two antimicrobials for localized skin manifestations, ...

A decades-old TB vaccine turned cancer therapy may unlock new immunotherapies by reprogramming immune cell development in the ...

There is no highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), which remains an infection of global concern. Charles ...

"There have been many developments in vaccine technology since the BCG vaccine was made. But it should be noted that TB is a disease that attacks the poor in poor countries, so no one is using ...