BCG vaccination–induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis

Science Translational Medicine
06 May 2020 Vol 12, Issue 542
https://stm.sciencemag.org/

 

Research Articles
BCG vaccination–induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis
By Byron Brook, Danny J. Harbeson, Casey P. Shannon, Bing Cai, Daniel He, Rym Ben-Othman, Freddy Francis, Joe Huang, Natallia Varankovich, Aaron Liu, Winnie Bao, Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, Lilica Sanca, Christian N. Golding, Kristina Lindberg Larsen, Ofer Levy, Beate Kampmann, The EPIC Consortium, Rusung Tan, Adrian Charles, James L. Wynn, Frank Shann, Peter Aaby, Christine S. Benn, Scott J. Tebbutt, Tobias R. Kollmann, Nelly Amenyogbe
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Neonatal administration of BCG vaccine rapidly increases neutrophil production to reduce mortality from sepsis.