Tuberculosis Vaccine

First U.S. TB vaccine trial in 60 years begins

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 18th, 2004

A new vaccine, made with several proteins from the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), will soon enter the first phase of human safety testing. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has supported research on the candidate vaccine from its earliest stages.

The trial will be conducted in the United States by Seattle biotechnology company Corixa and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, a vaccine manufacturer headquartered in Belgium.

"This is the first recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to reach human trials in the United States," said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD....

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2004-02-18)

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