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A New Recombinant Bacille Calmette‐Guérin Vaccine Safely Induces Significantly Enhanced Tuberculosis‐Specific Immunity in Human Volunteers
22 Sept 2008
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BACKGROUND: One strategy for improving anti-tuberculosis (TB) vaccination involves the use of recombinant bacille Calmette-Guérin (rBCG) overexpressing protective TB antigens. rBCG30, which overexpresses the Mycobacterium tuberculosis secreted antigen Ag85b, was the first rBCG shown to induce significantly greater protection against TB in animals than parental BCG. METHODS: We report here the first double-blind...
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