Recent progress in bacterial vaccines: Tuberculosis
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Vaccines for tuberculosis: novel concepts and recent progress.
Three-quarters of a century after the introduction of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, the first tuberculosis vaccine, new vaccines for tuberculosis are finally entering clinical trials. This breakthrough is based not only on advances in proteomics and genomics which have made the construction of new vaccines possible, but also on a greatly expanded knowledge of the immunology of tuberculosis. Here we ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/s1201-9712(97)90082-5