Making sense of emerging evidence on the non-specific effects of the BCG vaccine on malaria risk and neonatal mortality

Quique Bassat^{1

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5}, Gemma Moncunill¹, Carlota Dobaño¹

Affiliations

¹ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
² Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
³ ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.

Editorial

Quique Bassat et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 5;5(3):e002301.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002301. eCollection 2020.

Quique Bassat^{1

2

3

4

5}, Gemma Moncunill¹, Carlota Dobaño¹

¹ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
² Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
³ ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (University of Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: epidemiology; malaria; vaccines.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

BCG vaccination is associated with reduced malaria prevalence in children under the age of 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa.
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