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. 2012 Oct 23;109(43):17317-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1215761109. Epub 2012 Oct 15.

Saving lives by training innate immunity with bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine

Peter Aaby  1 , Christine Stabell Benn
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Saving lives by training innate immunity with bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine

Peter Aaby et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Conflict of interest statement: C.S.B. is funded by a starting grant from European Research Council.

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Fig. 1.
Newborn in Guinea-Bissau receives the first training of innate immunity with bacille Calmette–Guérin.
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