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ArticleVaccines2025

BCG Vaccine-Induced Innate and Adaptive Pulmonary Immunity Correlating with Protective Efficacy Against

Mayank Khanna, Alistair J Ramsay

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Article in Vaccines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Route of BCG administration determines success.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026
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  2. Antigen 85B ofVaccines · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mayank KhannaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and the Louisiana Vaccine Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
Alistair J RamsayDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and the Louisiana Vaccine Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3506-4544

Funding

LSUHSC Foundation, G John Buddingh Professorship 389090
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

adaptive immune responsesBCGbiomarkersimmune correlatesinnate immunityMycobacterium tuberculosispulmonary immunityvaccination

Identifiers

PMID40872961
PMCPMC12389847

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