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University of Oxford Describes Research in Tuberculosis

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 2nd, 2012

2012 MAY 2 -- Researchers detail in "Fusion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigen 85A to an Oligomerization Domain Enhances Its Immunogenicity in Both Mice and Non-Human Primates," new data in Tuberculosis. According to the authors of a study from Oxford, United Kingdom, "To prevent important infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV, vaccines inducing greater T cell responses are required. In this study, we investigated whether fusion of the M. tuberculosis antigen 85A to recently described adjuvant IMX313, a hybrid avian C4bp oligomerization domain, could increase T cell responses in pre-clinical vaccine model species."

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