A New Recombinant Bacille Calmette‐Guérin Vaccine Safely Induces Significantly Enhanced Tuberculosis‐Specific Immunity in Human Volunteers
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- 15 November 2008
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 198 (10) , 1491-1501
- https://doi.org/10.1086/592450
Abstract
Background. One strategy for improving anti-tuberculosis (TB) vaccination involves the use of recombinant bacille Calmette-Guérin (rBCG) overexpressiKeywords
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