Understanding immune protection against tuberculosis using RNA expression profiling
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Understanding immune protection against tuberculosis using RNA expression profiling
A major limitation in the development and testing of new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines is the current inadequate understanding of the nature of the immune response required for protection against either infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) or progression to disease. Genome wide RNA expression analysis has provided a new tool with which to study the inflammatory and immunological respons...
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عنوان ژورنال: Vaccine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0264-410X
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.05.025