Tuberculosis vaccines: current status and future prospects.

There is an urgent need to develop more effective tuberculosis vaccines as chemotherapy and Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) have failed to control the current epidemic. BCG does have some protective effect in childhood, so using a second vaccine to boost BCG would be the most ethical and logistically...

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Main Authors: Fletcher, H, Mcshane, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2006