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Where are the RNA vaccines for TB?

A simple mRNA vaccine was shown to protect mice against tuberculosis more than 15 years ago. Like COVID-19, tuberculosis is a respiratory infection killing over a million people per year. It too presents a global emergency. Can the stunning success of RNA vaccination against COVID-19 be replicated f...

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Autores principales: Fan, Xiao-Yong, Lowrie, Douglas Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34036874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2021.1935328
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spelling pubmed-82162572021-07-06 Where are the RNA vaccines for TB? Fan, Xiao-Yong Lowrie, Douglas Bruce Emerg Microbes Infect Commentary A simple mRNA vaccine was shown to protect mice against tuberculosis more than 15 years ago. Like COVID-19, tuberculosis is a respiratory infection killing over a million people per year. It too presents a global emergency. Can the stunning success of RNA vaccination against COVID-19 be replicated for TB? Taylor & Francis 2021-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8216257/ /pubmed/34036874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2021.1935328 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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