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Tuberculosis Vaccines
Research results from Brigham and Women's Hospital update knowledge of tuberculosis vaccines
January 7th, 2009
"While bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination plays an important role in reducing the morbidity of tuberculosis (TB) infection during childhood, new tuberculosis vaccines are necessary to disrupt the transmission of disease and improve global control of this pathogen," scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America report. "Growing evidence of the presence of meaningful Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain diversity, coupled with the possibility that new vaccines may differentially protect against infection or disease with circulating M. tuberculosis strains, suggest that these vaccines may have...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-01-07)
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