A Multistage Subunit Vaccine Effectively Protects Mice Against Primary Progressive Tuberculosis, Latency and Reactivation

Adult tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of TB epidemic and death. The infection results mainly by endogenous reactivation of latent TB infection and secondarily transmitted by exogenous infection. There is no vaccine for adult TB. To this end, we first chose antigens from a potential antigenic res...

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Main Authors: Jilei Ma, Xindong Teng, Xiaochun Wang, Xionglin Fan, Yaqi Wu, Maopeng Tian, Zijie Zhou, Longmeng Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-08-01
Series:EBioMedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396417302682