BCG vaccine's off-target effects on allergic, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases: Worth another shot?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass; Precision Vaccines Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ² Infectious Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Australia; Unit of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Children's Hospital, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Immunobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
• ⁴ Infectious Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁵ Precision Vaccines Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Electronic address: [email protected].