A new tuberculosis vaccine
- Correspondence to M Wilczynska, ST4 Respiratory Medicine, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl, Denbighshire LL18 5UJ, UK; mwilczynska{at}doctors.org.uk
- Infection control
- tuberculosis
- asthma guidelines
- cystic fibrosis
- exhaled airway markers
- lung physiology
- paediatric asthma
- paediatric lung disease
The BCG vaccine, designed as a prophylactic vaccine for pre-infection administration, is currently the only tuberculosis vaccine approved for human use.
In this study researchers developed a new multistage tuberculosis vaccine (H56) which can be used before and after exposure, and tested it in a mouse model. To construct the H56 vaccine, the authors …
