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Epitope promiscuity and population coverage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein antigens in current subunit vaccines under development.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2020
Ong Edison, He Yongqun, Yang Zhenhua
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide and claimed over 1.6 million lives in 2017. Furthermore, one-third of the world population is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). A safe and effective MTB vaccine that can prevent both the primary infection and the reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), and that can protect against all forms of...
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