Human infection model drives forward TB vaccine development
Drug Discovery World
APRIL 18, 2024
For the first time, a controlled human infection model for tuberculosis (TB) has been developed and could help with the future development of TB vaccines. Researchers from the University of Oxford developed the infection model, which replicates how TB enters the body by infecting people via the lung, using the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine delivered via aerosol into participants’ lungs.
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