Vaccine Development (TB)
New Tuberculosis Vaccines Show Promise
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 29th, 1998
Researchers from Colorado State University; Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania; the Pasteur Institute in Brussels, Belgium; and Texas A&M University looked at two potential vaccines for tuberculosis. One was based on a tuberculosis protein and the other was a piece of DNA from the bacterium. Both conferred protection against infection in guinea pigs.
The current vaccine, the bacillus Calmette-Guerin, or BCG, vaccine, has been...
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