Correlates of risk of TB disease in infants with differential response to BCG vaccination

Includes bibliographical references. === Studying prospective immune correlates of risk of TB disease following BCG vaccination is an important first step towards determining correlates of protection against TB, which can be identified only in a placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial (RCT) o...

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Main Author: Njikan, Samuel Ayaba
Other Authors: Hanekom, Willem A
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12873