The Efficacy of the BCG Vaccine against Newly Emerging Clinical Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

To date, most new vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including new recombinant versions of the current BCG vaccine, have usually been screened against the laboratory strains H37Rv or Erdman. In this study we took advantage of our recent work in characterizing an increasingly large panel of...

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Main Authors: Marcela Henao-Tamayo, Crystal A Shanley, Deepshikha Verma, Andrew Zilavy, Margaret C Stapleton, Synthia K Furney, Brendan Podell, Ian M Orme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4569086?pdf=render