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New Tuberculosis Vaccine Strategies: Taking Aim at Un-Natural Immunity

Abstract

Despite some major progress made in developing tuberculosis (TB) vaccine strategies, with a dozen novel vaccines currently in the clinical pipeline, the world is still missing an effective TB vaccine. This questions whether any major breakthroughs can be achieved without making a drastic departure from the current strategy, which creates a state of 'near-natural immunity', imitating the natural immunity developed after Mycobacterium …

Authors

Jeyanathan M; Yao Y; Afkhami S; Smaill F; Xing Z

Journal

Trends in Immunology, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 419–433

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

May 2018

DOI

10.1016/j.it.2018.01.006

ISSN

1471-4906