Journal article
Tuberculosis vaccines: beyond bacille Calmette–Guérin
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Tuberculosis (TB) disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) remains one of the leading infectious causes of death and disease throughout the world. The only licensed vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) confers highly variable protection against pulmonary disease. An effective vaccination regimen would be the most efficient way to control the epidemic. However, BCG does confer consistent and reliable protection against disseminated disease in childhood, and mo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 366
- Issue:
- 1579
- Pages:
- 2782-2789
- Publication date:
- 2011-10-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
- Source identifiers:
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175170
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- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:175170
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Helen McShane
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Rights statement:
- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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