Trained immunity—basic concepts and contributions to immunopathology

J Ochando, WJM Mulder, JC Madsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Trained immunity is a functional state of the innate immune response and is characterized
by long-term epigenetic reprogramming of innate immune cells. This concept originated in …

Trained immunity: adaptation within innate immune mechanisms

J Domínguez-Andrés, JC Dos Santos… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The mechanisms underlying innate immune memory have been extensively explored in the
last decades but are in fact largely unknown. Although the specificity of adaptive immune …

Bacteria-derived nanovesicles enhance tumour vaccination by trained immunity

G Liu, N Ma, K Cheng, Q Feng, X Ma, Y Yue… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Trained immunity enhances the responsiveness of immune cells to subsequent infections or
vaccinations. Here we demonstrate that pre-vaccination with bacteria-derived outer …

Pathophysiology of COVID-19: why children fare better than adults?

N Dhochak, T Singhal, SK Kabra, R Lodha - The Indian Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The world is facing Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is causing a
large number of deaths and burden on intensive care facilities. It is caused by Severe Acute …

BCG vaccine protection from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

LE Escobar, A Molina-Cruz, C Barillas-Mury - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - pnas.org
A series of epidemiological explorations has suggested a negative association between
national bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination policy and the prevalence and …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention of tuberculosis in macaques after intravenous BCG immunization

PA Darrah, JJ Zeppa, P Maiello, JA Hackney… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the leading cause of death from infection worldwide.
The only available vaccine, BCG (Bacillus Calmette–Guérin), is given intradermally and has …

[HTML][HTML] BCG vaccination in humans elicits trained immunity via the hematopoietic progenitor compartment

B Cirovic, LCJ de Bree, L Groh, BA Blok, J Chan… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Induction of trained immunity by Bacille-Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination mediates
beneficial heterologous effects, but the mechanisms underlying its persistence and …

BCG vaccination stimulates integrated organ immunity by feedback of the adaptive immune response to imprint prolonged innate antiviral resistance

A Lee, K Floyd, S Wu, Z Fang, TK Tan, HM Froggatt… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination can confer nonspecific protection
against heterologous pathogens. However, the underlying mechanisms remain mysterious …

Correlation between universal BCG vaccination policy and reduced morbidity and mortality for COVID-19: an epidemiological study

A Miller, MJ Reandelar, K Fasciglione, V Roumenova… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
COVID-19 has spread to most countries in the world. Puzzlingly, the impact of the disease is
different in different countries. These differences are attributed to differences in cultural …

100 years of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin

C Lange, P Aaby, MA Behr, PR Donald… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), an experimental vaccine
designed to protect cattle from bovine tuberculosis, was administered for the first time to a …