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Tuberculosis
Data on tuberculosis described by researchers at Colorado State University
November 5th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) currently remains the only licensed vaccine for the prevention of tuberculosis. In this study, we used a newly described flow cytometric technique to monitor changes in cell populations accumulating in the lungs and lymph nodes of naive and vaccinated guinea pigs challenged by low-dose aerosol infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis." "As anticipated, vaccinated guinea pigs controlled the growth of the challenge infection more efficiently than controls did. This early phase of bacterial control in immune animals was associated with increased accumulation...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-11-05)
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