Optimization of a human bacille Calmette-Guerin challenge model: a tool to evaluate antimycobacterial immunity

<p><strong>Background.</strong> There is an urgent need for an improved tuberculosis vaccine. The lack of a validated correlate of protection slows progress in achieving this goal. A human mycobacterial challenge model, using bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as a surrogate for a Mycob...

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Main Authors: Minhinnick, A, Harris, S, Wilkie, M, Peter, J, Stockdale, L, Manjaly-Thomas, Z, Vermaak, S, Satti, I, Moss, P, McShane, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2015