Editorial: how safe is it to administer the BCG vaccination to babies exposed to anti-TNFα medications antenatally? Authors' reply

Maxime Luu^{1

2}, Eric Benzenine³, Alan Barkun⁴, Muriel Doret⁵, Christophe Michiels⁶, Thibault Degand⁶, Catherine Quantin^{3

7}, Marc Bardou^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Plurithematic Unit, INSERM, CIC1432, Dijon, France.
² Plurithematic Unit, Clinical Investigation Center, Dijon-Bourgogne University Hospital, Dijon, France.
³ Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department, Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital, Dijon, France.
⁴ The McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
⁵ Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Bron, France.
⁶ Division of Gastroenterology, Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital, Dijon, France.
⁷ INSERM, Biostatistics, Biomathematics, Pharmacoepidemiology and Infectious Diseases (B2PHI), UVSQ, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.

Editorial

Maxime Luu et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Dec.

. 2019 Dec;50(11-12):1240-1241.

doi: 10.1111/apt.15559.

Maxime Luu^{1

2}, Eric Benzenine³, Alan Barkun⁴, Muriel Doret⁵, Christophe Michiels⁶, Thibault Degand⁶, Catherine Quantin^{3

7}, Marc Bardou^{1

2}

¹ Plurithematic Unit, INSERM, CIC1432, Dijon, France.
² Plurithematic Unit, Clinical Investigation Center, Dijon-Bourgogne University Hospital, Dijon, France.
³ Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department, Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital, Dijon, France.
⁴ The McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
⁵ Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Bron, France.
⁶ Division of Gastroenterology, Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital, Dijon, France.
⁷ INSERM, Biostatistics, Biomathematics, Pharmacoepidemiology and Infectious Diseases (B2PHI), UVSQ, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.

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Editorial: how safe is it to administer the BCG vaccination to babies exposed to anti-TNFα medications antenatally?
Bouri S, Hart AL. Bouri S, et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Dec;50(11-12):1239. doi: 10.1111/apt.15535. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2019. PMID: 31709612 No abstract available.

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