Sleeping Beauty and the Story of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccine
Mycobacterium bovis BCG is the only available vaccine for protection against tuberculosis (TB). While BCG protects children from severe disease, it has little impact on pulmonary disease in adults. A recombinant BCG vaccine BCG ΔureC::hly (strain VPM1002) is in advanced clinical trials and shows pro...
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| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-08-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/4/e01370-16 |