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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 115-118Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01949-1
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-75320] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent years have seen a renewed effort to develop new vaccines against tuberculosis. As a result, several promising avenues of research have developed, including the production of recombinant vaccines, auxotrophic vaccines, DNA vaccines and subunit vaccines. In this article we briefly review this work, as well as consider the pros and cons of the animal models needed to test these new vaccines. Screening to date has been carried out in mouse and guinea pig models, which have been used to obtain basic information such as the effect of the vaccine on bacterial load, and whether the vaccine can prevent or reduce lung pathology. The results to date lead us to be optimistic that new candidate vaccines could soon be considered for evaluation in clinical trials.
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