Novel approaches to tuberculosis vaccine development

Novel approaches to tuberculosis vaccine development

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the deadliest infectious disease. The widely used bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine offers only limited protection against TB. New vaccine candidates for TB include subunit vaccines and inactivated whole-cell vaccines, as well as live mycobacterial vaccines. Current dev...

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Main Authors: Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, January Weiner, C. Fordham von Reyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Preventive vaccine
Therapeutic vaccine
Pre-exposure vaccine
Post-exposure vaccine
Subunit vaccine
Whole-cell vaccine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971216312024

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