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Transcriptional profiling of mycobacterial antigen-induced responses in infants vaccinated with BCG at birth

BACKGROUND: Novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccines recently tested in humans have been designed to boost immunity induced by the current vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG). Because BCG vaccination is used extensively in infants, this population group is likely to be the first in wh...

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Autores principales: Fletcher, Helen A, Keyser, Alana, Bowmaker, Mark, Sayles, Peter C, Kaplan, Gilla, Hussey, Greg, Hill, Adrian VS, Hanekom, Willem A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19239680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-8794-2-10