• BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in healthcare workers: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (BRACE trial) 

      Pittet, Laure F; Messina, Nicole L; Gardiner, Kaya; Orsini, Francesca; Abruzzo, Veronica; Bannister, Samantha; Bonten, Marc; Campbell, John L; Croda, Julio; Dalcolmo, Margareth; Elia, Sonja; Germano, Susie; Goodall, Casey; Gwee, Amanda; Jamieson, Tenaya; Jardim, Bruno; Kollmann, Tobias R; Guimarães Lacerda, Marcus Vinícius; Lee, Katherine J; Legge, Donna; Lucas, Michaela; Lynn, David J; McDonald, Ellie; Manning, Laurens; Munns, Craig F; Perrett, Kirsten P; Prat Aymerich, Cristina; Richmond, Peter; Shann, Frank; Sudbury, Eva; Villanueva, Paola; Wood, Nicholas J; Lieschke, Katherine; Subbarao, Kanta; Davidson, Andrew; Curtis, Nigel;
      Published 2021
      INTRODUCTION: BCG vaccination modulates immune responses to unrelated pathogens. This off-target effect could reduce the impact of emerging pathogens. As a readily available, inexpensive intervention that has a well-established ...
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    • Genomic epidemiology reveals how restriction measures shaped the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Brazil 

      Giovanetti, Marta; Slavov, Svetoslav Nanev; Fonseca, Vagner; Wilkinson, Eduan; Tegally, Houriiyah; Patané, José Salvatore Leister; Viala, Vincent Louis; San, Emmanuel James; Rodrigues, Evandra Strazza; Santos, Elaine Vieira; Aburjaile, Flavia; Xavier, Joilson; Fritsch, Hegger; Adelino, Talita Emile Ribeiro; Pereira, Felicidade; Leal, Arabela; de Melo Iani, Felipe Campos; de Carvalho Pereira, Glauco; Vazquez, Cynthia; Sanabria, Gladys Mercedes Estigarribia; de Oliveira, Elaine Cristina; Demarchi, Luiz; Croda, Julio; dos Santos Bezerra, Rafael; de Lima, Loyze Paola Oliveira; Martins, Antonio Jorge; dos Santos Barros, Claudia Renata; Marqueze, Elaine Cristina; de Souza Todao Bernardino, Jardelina; Moretti, Debora Botequio; Brassaloti, Ricardo Augusto; de Lello Rocha Campos Cassano, Raquel; Mariani, Pilar Drummond Sampaio Corrêa; Kitajima, João Paulo; Santos, Bibiana; Proto-Siqueira, Rodrigo; Cantarelli, Vlademir Vicente; Tosta, Stephane; Nardy, Vanessa Brandão; da Silva, Luciana Reboredo de Oliveira; Gómez, Marcela Kelly Astete; Lima, Jaqueline Gomes; Ribeiro, Adriana Aparecida; Guimarães, Natália Rocha; Watanabe, Luiz Takao; Da Silva, Luana Barbosa; da Silva Ferreira, Raquel; da Penha, Mara Patricia F.; Ortega, María José; de la Fuente, Andrea Gómez; Villalba, Shirley; Torales, Juan; Gamarra, María Liz; Aquino, Carolina; Figueredo, Gloria Patricia Martínez; Fava, Wellington Santos; Motta-Castro, Ana Rita C.; Venturini, James; de Oliveira, Sandra Maria do Vale Leone; Gonçalves, Crhistinne Cavalheiro Maymone; do Carmo Debur Rossa, Maria; Becker, Guilherme Nardi; Presibella, Mayra Marinho; Marques, Nelson Quallio; Riediger, Irina Nastassja; Raboni, Sonia; Coelho, Gabriela Mattoso; Cataneo, Allan Henrique Depieri; Zanluca, Camila; dos Santos, Claudia N Duarte; Assato, Patricia Akemi; Allan Costa, Felipe da Silva da; Poleti, Mirele Daiana; Lesbon, Jessika Cristina Chagas; Mattos, Elisangela Chicaroni; Banho, Cecilia Artico; Sacchetto, Lívia; Moraes, Marília Mazzi; Grotto, Rejane Maria Tommasini; Souza-Neto, Jayme A.; Nogueira, Maurício Lacerda; Fukumasu, Heidge; Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann; Calado, Rodrigo Tocantins; Neto, Raul Machado; de Filippis, Ana Maria Bispo; da Cunha, Rivaldo Venancio; Freitas, Carla; Peterka, Cassio Roberto Leonel; de Fátima Rangel Fernandes, Cássia; de Araújo, Wildo Navegantes; do Carmo Said, Rodrigo Fabiano; Almiron, Maria; de Albuquerque e Melo, Carlos Frederico Campelo; Lourenço, José; de Oliveira, Tulio; Holmes, Edward C.; Haddad, Ricardo; Sampaio, Sandra Coccuzzo; Elias, Maria Carolina; Kashima, Simone; de Alcantara, Luiz Carlos Junior; Covas, Dimas Tadeu
      Published 2021
      Abstract Brazil has experienced some of the highest numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths globally and made Latin America a pandemic epicenter from May 2021. Although SARS-CoV-2 established sustained transmission in ...
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