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BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in healthcare workers: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (BRACE trial)

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  • Laure F Pittet Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Infectious Diseases, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicole L Messina Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kaya Gardiner Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francesca Orsini Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Veronica Abruzzo Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Samantha Bannister Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Infectious Diseases, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marc Bonten University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John L Campbell University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julio Croda Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil School of Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Margareth Dalcolmo Helio Fraga Reference Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Ministry of Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sonja Elia Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Immunisation Service, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Susie Germano Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Casey Goodall Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Amanda Gwee Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Infectious Diseases, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tenaya Jamieson Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bruno Jardim Institute of Clinical Research Carlos Borborema, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tobias R Kollmann Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda Institute of Clinical Research Carlos Borborema, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Katherine J Lee Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Donna Legge Department of Pharmacy, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michaela Lucas Department of Immunology, QE2 Medical Centre, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia Department of Immunology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia Department of Immunology and General Paediatrics, Perth Children's Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David J Lynn Precision Medicine Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ellie McDonald Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laurens Manning Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Department of Infectious Diseases, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Bull Creek, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Craig F Munns Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kirsten P Perrett Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Allergy and Immunology, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Melbourne Children's Trial Centre, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cristina Prat Aymerich University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands Institut d’Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, CIBER de enfermedades respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalunya, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter Richmond Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Department of Immunology and General Paediatrics, Perth Children's Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frank Shann Infectious Diseases, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Eva Sudbury Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paola Villanueva Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicholas J Wood Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network Randwick and Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Katherine Lieschke Melbourne Children's Trial Centre, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kanta Subbarao WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrew Davidson Melbourne Children's Trial Centre, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nigel Curtis Infectious Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Infectious Diseases, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • the BRACE trial Consortium Group
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  1. Correspondence to Professor Nigel Curtis; nigel.curtis{at}rch.org.au
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Pittet LF, Messina NL, Gardiner K the BRACE trial Consortium Group, et al
BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in healthcare workers: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (BRACE trial)
BMJ Open 2021;11:e052101. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052101

Publication history

  • Received April 7, 2021
  • Accepted September 2, 2021
  • First published October 28, 2021.
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June 26, 2023
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