Reassessing Twenty Years of Vaccine Development Against Tuberculosis

• Main Author: Stefan H. Kaufmann (auth)
• Other Authors: Ulrich E. Schaible (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Mycobacterium; Tuberculosis; T cell; BCG; macrophage; Vaccine; protection; Innate; Neutrophil; Immunity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the prime bacterial infection worldwide with 10.4 million infections and a death toll of 1.7 million people in 2016 according to WHO statistics. Tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, facultative intracellular bacteria able to thrive wi...