Renewing the Fight Against TB with an Old Vaccine

被引:6
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作者
Scriba, Thomas J. [1 ,2 ]
Mizrahi, Valerie [3 ,4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cape Town, South African TB Vaccine Initiat, Cape Town, South Africa
[2] Univ Cape Town, Inst Infect Dis & Mol Med, Div Immunol, Dept Pathol, Cape Town, South Africa
[3] Univ Cape Town, SAMRC NHLS UCT Mol Mycobacteriol Res Unit, Cape Town, South Africa
[4] Univ Cape Town, Inst Infect Dis & Mol Med, Div Med Microbiol, Dept Pathol, Cape Town, South Africa
[5] Univ Cape Town, Wellcome Ctr Infect Dis Res Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
关键词
TUBERCULOSIS; BCG; PREVENTION; MACAQUES;
D O I
10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.024
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Prevention of pulmonary tuberculosis by vaccination has proven an elusive goal. In a recent study, Darrah et al. show that prevention of infection and disease can be achieved in non-human primates by intravenous administration of the century-old vaccine BCG. This finding heralds a step-change in the approach to TB vaccine development.
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页码:829 / 831
页数:3
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