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Lost genes lend new strength to TB vaccine.
2003 MAY 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Reinforcing the existing tuberculosis (TB) vaccine with new genes from the microbe that causes the disease makes the vaccine more effective, Stewart Cole and his colleagues report.
There is no consistently successful vaccine for TB, which kills more than 2 million people each year. The most commonly used vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), is most effective against certain childhood forms of the disease. BCG is a live vaccine derived from a virulent strain of the microbe that causes TB. When scientists first created ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Lost genes lend new strength to TB vaccine.