Tuberculosis Vaccine

Prospects for new tuberculosis vaccines reviewed

Published in Health and Medicine Week, March 29th, 2004

Researchers review prospects for new tuberculosis vaccines in a recent issue of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

According to recent research from Switzerland, "Research towards the development of improved TB vaccines has reached an important turning point. A large number of vaccine candidates such as modified BCG, attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis and protein or DNA subunit vaccines, resulting from over a decade of work in experimental laboratory models, are now getting ready for clinical testing. The transition from laboratory to clinical trials has a wide range of strategic and technical implications."

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