Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination didn't help prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially uninfected adolescents without HIV in a randomized trial from South Africa.

During the frightening early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020, Kiehl Sundt, of Sequim, Washington, became one of the first people on Earth to receive an experimental dose of Moderna’s ...

Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine has a protective effect against tuberculosis (TB) in adults decades after vaccination, according to a cross-sectional study. The observation, posted online ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Can you please speak about the BCG vaccine? My daughter was born in Bolivia and received it as an infant. Now she always tests positive for tuberculosis, and people in the medical ...

Thank you for addressing the ongoing disinformation on the BCG vaccine. I also have had problems with providers not following up on positive skin tests in patients vaccinated more than 15 years ...

The world's only licensed tuberculosis (TB) vaccine could offer protection against the disease for nearly twice as long as previously thought, according to new research. Previously thought to be ...

An estimated two billion people worldwide are currently latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) and there are approximately 9.3 million new cases of active tuberculosis (TB) and 1.7 ...

A private grade school in Moscow, Russia, is having trouble formulating a policy of TB screening with skin testing for students, as some have received bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine at birth, ...

The BCG (Bacillus Calmette–Guérin) vaccine is given intradermally and has variable efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis, a highly contagious disease that is responsible for about 1.5 million deaths ...

A new, souped-up version of the BCG vaccine may offer new hope in the global fight against tuberculosis. TB is one of the planet’s biggest killers. One third of the world’s population is infected with ...