Thesis
Defining the adaptive immune response to aerosol BCG infection as a controlled human infection model for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Alternative title:
- Defining the adaptive immune response to aerosol BCG
- Abstract:
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an important global health threat, which continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Efforts to improve prevention, diagnosis and cure are hampered by an incomplete understanding of the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the causative infectious agent of TB. Work presented in this thesis describes the human adaptive immune response to aerosol inhaled Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a live attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovi...
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+ McShane, H
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- MSD
- Department:
- NDM
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-2126-5142
+ Satti, I
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- MSD
- Department:
- NDM
- Role:
- Supervisor
- DOI:
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Subjects:
- Deposit date:
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2025-05-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Hazel Morrison
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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