TB Vaccines

Vaccine Doesn't Produce Deceptive Positive Skin Tests

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 3rd, 1996

Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins, said they have created a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine that appears to be as effective as the existing one - but doesn't produce deceptive positive skin tests.

The vaccine, if proven effective in further tests, could help stop the spread of TB, which causes three million deaths annually worldwide. The breakthrough was discussed at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 19-23, 1996.

"The biggest advantage of using a sub-unit vaccine is that it does not produce the positive skin test after you've been given it," said researcher Susan...

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