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. 2022 May 12;12:7808. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11748-x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Significant effect of BCG vaccination on growth of Gram-negative bacteria in the PBMC GIA. Samples were

taken from volunteers enrolled into phases 1 and 2 combined. Healthy UK adults were randomised to receive BCG vaccination (n = 27) or to be unvaccinated controls (n = 8). PBMC bacterial GIAs were conducted on samples taken at baseline and days 2, 7, 14, 28 and 84 following BCG vaccination (closed circles) and at the same time-points in unvaccinated control individuals (open circles). PBMC and autologous serum were co-cultured with E. coli (a, b) or K. pneumoniae (c, d) for 1 h after which time cells were lysed and bacteria quantified by plating on solid blood agar. Bars represent the median values with the interquartile range (IQR); dotted lines indicate the baseline median. Paired t-tests were performed of each time-point vs. baseline, where *indicates a p-value of < 0.05 and **indicates a p-value of < 0.005.