Infectious disease: Virus-based tuberculosis vaccine

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 17, 242 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrd.2018.50 Author: Sarah Crunkhorn The bacille Calmette–Guérin vaccine can protect children from tuberculosis (TB), but is not effective in adults, probably owing to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) manipulating human innate immune responses to enable persistent infection. A recent study reports a promising alternative vaccine approach — the use of
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