The Humoral Immune Response to BCG Vaccination

Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) is the only currently available vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), but it confers incomplete and variable protection against pulmonary TB in humans and bovine TB (bTB) in cattle. Insights into the immune response induced by BCG offer an underexploited opportunity to ga...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Immunology
Main Authors:	Rachel Tanner, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, H. Martin Vordermeier, Helen McShane
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Subjects:	humoral immunity BCG vaccine antibodies B cells tuberculosis bovine TB
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.01317/full

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