Identification of similar epitopes between SARS-CoV-2 and Bacillus Calmette-Guérin: potential for cross-reactive adaptive immunity

Objectives: Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination has been implicated in protection against SARS-CoV-2 and as a non-specific immunization method against the virus. We therefore decided to investigate T cell and B cell epitopes within the BCG Pasteur strain proteome for similarity to immunogeni...

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Main Authors: Urbán, Szabolcs, Paragi, Gábor, Burián, Katalin, McLean, Gary R., Virok, Dezső P.
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Wiley 2020
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Online Access:https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/6221/1/Manuscript_full-revised-161120.pdf
https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/6221/2/cti2.1227.pdf