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Saxena HM. Immunotherapy of COVID-19 with Bacille Calmette - Guerin: Where is the missing red herring?. S Afr J Infect Dis. 2021;36(1):215doi: 10.4102/sajid.v36i1.215.
Saxena, H. M. (2021). Immunotherapy of COVID-19 with Bacille Calmette - Guerin: Where is the missing red herring?. Southern African journal of infectious diseases, 36(1), 215. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v36i1.215
Saxena, Hari M. "Immunotherapy of COVID-19 with Bacille Calmette - Guerin: Where is the missing red herring?." Southern African journal of infectious diseases vol. 36,1 (2021): 215. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v36i1.215
Saxena HM. Immunotherapy of COVID-19 with Bacille Calmette - Guerin: Where is the missing red herring?. S Afr J Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 05;36(1):215. doi: 10.4102/sajid.v36i1.215. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34485493; PMCID: PMC8378185.
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S Afr J Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 05;36(1):215. doi: 10.4102/sajid.v36i1.215. eCollection 2021.

Immunotherapy of COVID-19 with Bacille Calmette - Guerin: Where is the missing red herring?.

Southern African journal of infectious diseases

Hari M Saxena

Affiliations

  1. Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, India.

PMID: 34485493 PMCID: PMC8378185 DOI: 10.4102/sajid.v36i1.215

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) morbidity and mortality was found to be less severe in countries where Bacille Calmette - Guerin (BCG) vaccination of the population is carried out. Conjugating Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) onto tumour cells and injecting into BCG primed mice was found to enhance anti-tumour immune response. We had proposed earlier that

© 2021. The Authors.

Keywords: BCG; COVID 19; PPD; SARS CoV2; coronavirus; immunotherapy; vaccine

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that he has no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced him in writing this opinion paper.

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