New tuberculosis vaccine to support tuberculosis elimination
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BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...
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عنوان ژورنال: Universa Medicina
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2407-2230,1907-3062
DOI: 10.18051/univmed.2018.v37.85-87