Deletion of nuoG from the Vaccine Candidate Mycobacterium bovis BCG ΔureC::hly Improves Protection against Tuberculosis

The current tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guàérin (BCG), provides insufficient protection against pulmonary TB. Previously, we generated a listeriolysin-expressing recombinant BCG strain, which to date has successfully completed phase I and phase IIa clinical tri...

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Main Authors: Martin Gengenbacher, Natalie Nieuwenhuizen, Alexis Vogelzang, Haipeng Liu, Peggy Kaiser, Stefanie Schuerer, Doris Lazar, Ina Wagner, Hans-Joachim Mollenkopf, Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-05-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/e00679-16