Objective
It is proposed to examined the non-specific effects of BCG vaccination through three randomised trials with possible implications for immunisation policies in developing countries. It will be examined whether revaccination with BCG reduces mortality with 30%, whether BCG vaccination at birth of low birth weight children is associated with better BCG coverage and 25% lower mortality, and whether vitamin A supplementation simultaneously with BCG vaccination is associated with a 30% reduction in infant mortality. None of these measures are standard in the current immunisation programmes in developing countries; however, observational studies suggest that BCG vaccination may have non-specific beneficial effects. The impact on severe morbidity and hospitalisations, in particular from malaria, will also be examined through surveillance at the paediatric department. The possible immunological basis for non-specific effects will be examined.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases malaria
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunisation
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Denmark
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