Article
Genetic requirements of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> for survival under pathogen-specific immunity
2024-09-29
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB), remains a persistent global health challenge due to the lack of an effective vaccine. The only licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), is a live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis , that protects young children from severe disease but fails to provide protection through adulthood. It is unclear why BCG...
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- Literature Corpus work
- eba329cd-96f7-59b9-8eff-27c20502f499
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.09.26.615000
